"Canonize" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to admit into the canon of the Mass, to canonize, MD; to consecrate, admit to the dignity of the papacy, ...
— A Concise Dictionary of Middle English - From A.D. 1150 To 1580 • A. L. Mayhew and Walter W. Skeat
... limits she has set to the practical abilities of those animals, not enlarging their natural gifts out of respect to the Athenian selection (an anecdote which supplies a rhyme to Hamlet's verse, and to many others from the same source)—'to which the custom of so many people, who canonize the KINGS they have chosen out of their own body, and are not content only to honour, but adore them, comes very near. Those of Mexico [for instance, it would not of course do to take any nearer home], after the ceremonies of their king's ...
— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon |
