Anagrams of: CANTONISE

• people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe)

• formal and explicit approval

• a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards

• official permission or approval

• the act of final authorization

• give sanction to

• give authority or permission to

• give religious sanction to, such as through an oath

• showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others

• someone paddling a canoe

• of or relating to the class Insecta

• any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103

• include or contain; have as a component

• contain or hold; have within

• lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits

• be divisible by

• be capable of holding or containing

• hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of

• treat as a sacred person

• declare (a dead person) to be a saint

• pertaining to or characteristic of a body of rules and principles accepted as axiomatic; e.g. "canonist communism"

• a specialist in canon law