Definition of "canonize" []

• To declare (a deceased person) to be a saint and entitled to be fully honored as such. (verb-transitive)
• To include in the biblical canon. (verb-transitive)
• To include in a literary canon. (verb-transitive)
• To approve as being within canon law. (verb-transitive)
• To treat as sacred; glorify. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "One technique could be described as "canonize and control.""
• "What is it about Purim that compelled the rabbis to "canonize" this drama, requiring every Jewish community to read the Megila twice each year - accompanied by rituals such as mishloach manot, gifts to the poor, and an elaborate banquet?"
• "(supposing it to be a fact,) is but the correlative of the old one; and since it was Eusebius who was the voucher for that, what additional probability do we establish that the inspired autograph of S. Mark ended abruptly at ver. 8, by discovering that Eusebius is consistent with himself, and omits to "canonize" (or even to "sectionize") what he had already hypothetically hinted might as well be left out altogether?"