CANONIZE Synonyms

• solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose

• appoint to a clerical posts

• give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause

• dedicate to a deity by a vow

• render holy by means of religious rites

• state emphatically and authoritatively

• announce publicly or officially

• state firmly

• declare to be

• authorize payments of

• designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand

• make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official

• proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against

• consider as a god or godlike

• exalt to the position of a God

• praise, glorify, or honor

• fill with sublime emotion

• heighten or intensify

• raise in rank, character, or status

• render holy by means of religious rites

• give religious sanction to, such as through an oath

• make pure or free from sin or guilt

• a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization

• person of exceptional holiness

• model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal

• hold sacred

• declare (a dead person) to be a saint

• treat as a sacred person

• declare (a dead person) to be a saint