1(in the Roman Catholic Church) officially declare (a dead person) to be a saint.

他是宗教改革之前最后一个被封为圣者的英国人。

1. 1.1 Regard as being above reproach or of great significance.
   〈喻〉认为…是无可指责的；视…极其重要
   we have canonized freedom of speech as an absolute value overriding all others

   我们已经把言论自由看做是天经地义的、压倒一切的绝对价值。

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   • Some history books have canonized people who have ravaged the rich and shared the treasure with the poor.
   • To this end we focus on three aspects: the dominance of British topics and authors, the opening up of the canonised methodological approach and the alleged dominance of railway history.
   • He employed standard sociological research methods to a degree unparalleled by the canonized classical sociologists of religion.
   • Indeterminacy, now canonized, becomes the favorite mark of an art form that has no determinacy in a capitalist society.
   • This particular effort, however, more closely resembles Plato's canonized critique in the Phaedrus of the new technology called writing.
   • In our collective memory of historical events, some players are canonized, others are diminished, and the process that separates them often seems arbitrary.
   • Universities as institutions for basic research and high-level instruction have to maintain, increase and communicate that type of knowledge that is not readily canonized into mass education.
   • By presenting the regime's ideology as the criterion for judgment he abolishes it as a subject for inquiry and awards it a moral and canonized status, which stands above any questioning or criticism.
   • I'd say the great failing of most intellectual ‘isms’ is that first a model is constructed, then canonized, so that the non-correspondence of reality to the model is seen as a flaw in the people who don't fit the model's caricature.
   • You are practically canonizing parents - saying that They Love You More Than Life Itself; They Have Your Best Interests At Heart; They Only Want What's Best For You.

   Synonyms

   glorify, acclaim
2. 1.2 Accept into the literary or artistic canon.
   as adjective a familiar, canonized writer

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   • The same goes, but more predictably, for Roger Ebert's happily overbearing commentary on Floating Weeds, a film he has famously canonized in print, as part of his Great Movies series.
   • Most of the private-collection shows of self-taught art that have taken place in this country focus on a relatively small number of already canonized self-taught artists.
   • Scholars construct arguments around other arguments already authorized by the field and institutionalized by its journals-be it a rhetorical structure, canonized author, or generic convention.
   • This past December, Anthology Film Archives and MoMA Film held centenaries commemorating Joseph Cornell's contribution to cinema as both a collector and filmmaker, showing his canonized films as well as rarities.
   • By the 1980s, Grease and Happy Days had become canonized as sources of images both of historical periods and of the theme of adolescence.
   • Already canonized in the pages of The New York Times and virtually ordained by the glossies, Eminem has become the current hipness litmus.
   • Aside from these criticisms, One Planet presented an impressive roster of canonized international artists and hot up-and-comers.
   • Critics are willing to sacrifice an author like Edogawa Rampo to a Gothic jacket because, like Stephen King, he is considered a writer of pulp horror, but canonized masters are, for the most part, protected from such affiliations.
   • Jaques may never have been able to retire on her royalties, but she gained profits rather than debts from her writing to an extent never experienced by the canonized male poets of Canadian modernism.
   • Even more important, they would do well to consider looking beyond the relatively small group of canonized artists whose work is continually recycled in exhibitions, books and auction rooms.
   • A seemingly contrite Welles rode this notoriety to Hollywood where, at the age of 24, he wrote, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane, which has become canonized as one of the greatest films ever made.
   • The lack of attention to such printed matter might be explained by the fact that most museums do riot consider such ephemera as art (unless it can be attached to a canonized art photographer).
   • It is surely very strange that Romanticism, alone of our conventional periodizations, customarily includes the texts of a single genre in its list of canonized works.
   • Writing in margins of canonized texts, both religious and secular, is common in African American writing.
   • Countless books and articles have either praised or criticized, canonized or vilified Du Bois and his many theories.
   • Tupac Shakur is the hip-hop icon most frequently canonized in contemporary literature.
   • For Kingston, claiming Euro-American literature and some of its most canonized voices - notably Whitman and Joyce - represents the labor necessary to claim a tradition.
   • Ginsberg's poem, ‘Howl’, and Burrough's novel, Naked Lunch, have become cult classics, canonized in American literature by many critics.
   • When a work is admired and canonized, contingencies such as time and place and function are pushed aside or reformulated to maintain other interests.
3. 1.3 Sanction by Church authority.
   （教会当局）批准，认可
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   • Scripture was vetted and canonized, and a creed adopted and reaffirmed against those who would challenge, alter, or undermine it.
   • Although his version of the myth has become canonized, many of his details were inventions or alterations.
   • The contents of the New Testament were formalized by Athanasius of Alexandria in 367 CE, and finally canonized in 382 CE.

   Synonyms

   sanctify, bless, make holy, make sacred, hallow, set apart, dedicate to god