Word Meanings - CANONIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To declare a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized. 2. To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor. Fame in time to come canonize us. Shak. 2. To rate as inspired; to include in the canon.
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- THOMAS PHOSPHATE; THOMAS SLAG
See ABOVE - CANONISTIC
Of or pertaining to a canonist. "This canonistic exposition." Milton. - HONORABLE
1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an - CANONICITY
The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon. - CANON BONE
The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse. - HONORABLENESS
1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness. - CANON
A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second - EXALTMENT
Exaltation. Barrow. - INSPIRING
Animating; cheering; moving; exhilarating; as, an inspiring or scene. - INSPIRATOR
A kind of injector for forcing water by steam. See Injector, n., 2. - CANONICALLY
; according to the canons. - SAINTISM
The character or quality of saints; also, hypocritical pretense of holiness. Wood. - DECLAREMENT
Declaration. - CANONIST
A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law. South. - SAINTOLOGIST
One who writes the lives of saints. - CANONRY
A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon. - INSPIRED
1. Breathed in; inhaled. 2. Moved or animated by, or as by, a supernatural influence; affected by divine inspiration; as, the inspired prophets; the inspired writers. 3. Communicated or given as by supernatural or divine inspiration; having divine - SAINTDOM
The state or character of a saint. Tennyson. - HONOR
1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii. - INSPIRATIONIST
One who holds to inspiration. - ALL SAINTS; ALL SAINTS'
The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival. - PROTOCANONICAL
Of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture; -- opposed to deutero-canonical. - DISGLORIFY
To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity. Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton. - LATTER-DAY SAINT
A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons. - PREDECLARE
To declare or announce beforehand; to preannounce. Milman. - UNGLORIFY
To deprive of glory. I. Watts.