Verb (used with object), : They canonized the Song of Solomon after much controversy. ,They canonized his many verbal foibles and made them gospel.    From Dictionary.com. 

Not all of them are officially "canonized" - they don't have to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [alancreech] Reference

So I think it has further, kind of canonized, if you will, this incredible world of Shostakovich in these 15 quartets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decade In Classical Recordings] Reference

Town is named after him, though he was never 'canonized' as a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Footnotes on the Lisa - Luttig Expedition, 1812] Reference

(2 comments) Spewers of hate are "canonized" in the United States, while those concerned with the fate of their fellow man are asassinated.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

By all four I should be not cursed, but canonized.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference

She was solemnly canonized by Innocent III. in 1200.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

If she had lived another decade she would probably have been canonized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference

She was never canonized, nor is she named in the Roman Martyrology: but.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

She simply carried out her duty, yet the media have all but canonized her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call And Corrections: Our Digital Future: Wh] Reference

Claudius was canonized among the gods, who scarcely deserved the name of man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference

Canonization: Before a candidate can be canonized, one more miracle is required.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Happiest Human] Reference

St. Thomas of Hereford (1222-1282) was the last Englishman to be officially canonized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference

In this book, he sought to show that the accepted, and even canonized, teachers of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Others canonized them, especially Little Edie for her fashion and grandiose statements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ari Bendersky: Spend Some Time at Grey Gardens] Reference

He was honored with many miracles, and immediately canonized by the voice of the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

Their names stand in the Roman Martyrology, and they were canonized by Sixtus IV. in 1481.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

Once again, a miracle of intercession would then be required before she could be canonized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Requiem For A Saint] Reference

And that's the legion of black comedians and rappers that have virtually canonized the word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Dr. Laura Got it Right About the N Word] Reference

In certain instances our rural apothegms are sacred relics of extinct but canonized fictions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Lore] Reference

He was slain by conspiracy of the jealous Danes, the 7th of January, 1130, and canonized in 1171.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

Roman Martyrology; for Molanus, in his Indiculus, and Miræus observe that he was never canonized.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

Long after Herzen's death, after his writing about autonomy and human dignity, Lenin canonized him as a hero.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Brit vs. The Utopians] Reference

This list samples canonized artists and mega-galleries to major mid-career artists, with a foray into fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Artlog: Artlog's Top Art & Culture Picks] Reference

Officials of the papal court dissuaded him at the last moment and, two years later, she was canonized by his successor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Requiem For A Saint] Reference

The two candidates are still under study, and neither is likely to be canonized until well into the next century -- if ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Requiem For A Saint] Reference

This is also true of the "faith-based organizations" so often canonized nowadays in speeches by candidates from both parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [For 'W,' Wonkery That Works] Reference

His crowning affront to egalitarian orthodoxy is to claim that books get canonized for their "weirdness" -- Bloom-speak for "uniqueness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Naughty! Haughty! It's Anti-Multi-Culti!] Reference