canonize
verb(British English also canonise)
[usually passive]- canonize somebody
(of the Pope )教宗 to state officially that somebody is now a saint compare beatifyTopics Religion and festivalsc2正式宣布(某人)为圣徒;宣圣;列入圣品 Oxford Collocations DictionaryCanonize is used with these nouns as the object:- saint
Word Originlate Middle English: from late Latin canonizare ‘admit as authoritative’ (in medieval Latin ‘admit to the list of recognized saints’), from Latin canon, from Greek kanōn ‘rule’.