Meaning of canonise | Babel Free

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Non-Oxford British English spelling of canonize.

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“[T]hat a rhetorician, like⟳ Libanius, a Pagan even to madneſs, ſhould think⟳ the Chriſtians capable of attempting the life of Julian, is not ſurpriſing. [...] But that an eccleſiaſtical hiſtorian, like⟳ Sozomen, ſhould be tempted to canoniſe ſo deteſtable an action, might perhaps not be credited on my aſſertion.”

“Fifty-eight years ago Jolyon had become⟳ an Eton boy, for old Jolyon's whim had been that he should be canonised at the greatest possible expense.”

“Nay, where pilgrimages are not successful, they begin⟳ to canonise saints, not in honor of the saints—for they are sufficiently honored without canonisation—but in order⟳ to draw⟳ crowds and bring⟳ in money.”

“The European library only achieves its characteristic design⟳ in 1843, with the separation of reading areas from bookstacks first attempted in library architecture at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève at the Université de Paris. [...] [Anthony] Panizzi's British Museum Reading Room (stacks surrounding a central reading room) canonised the procedure, which dominates even the more recent tower stacks, in which librarianship triumphs over ideological and economic divides, [...]”

“American are perhaps more obsessed with the idea of royalty than our long-lost British brothers; our taste⟳ for anything royal, never satiated in a true democracy, manifests itself in the canonising of celebrities and their families and mass idealisation of political dynasties like⟳ the Kennedys.”

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