canonize

verb

1. 正式宣布（某人）为圣徒；宣圣；列入圣品
   to state officially that sb is now a saint

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 canonise


1. VERB (在天主教中）封（死者）为圣徒,封圣
   If a dead person is canonized, it is officially announced by the Catholic Church that he or she is a saint.
   1. Joan of Arc was finally canonized by Pope Benedict XV in 1920.
      圣女贞德终于在1920年由教皇本尼狄克十五世封为圣徒。

1. Joan of Arc was finally canonized by Pope Benedict XV in 1920.
   圣女贞德终于在1920年由教皇本尼狄克十五世封为圣徒。
2. Exporting management through hotel management corporation become a canonize mode in the collectivize process and policy direction of guiding.
   在中国饭店集团化的发展初期，在行业主管部门的政策导向下，饭店管理公司输出管理，提升行业的整体专业化水平成为一种备受推崇的模式。
3. But art not truly descends to the ground, it loafs in the abundant middle class crowd, expends the expense way and the life style which the society canonize are the standard of middle class life model.
   但艺术并没有真正地降落到人间，而是游荡于富足的中产阶级人群中，都市消费空间里推崇的消费方式和生活方式更是标准的中产阶级生活的模本。

verb

1. declare (a dead person) to be a saint
   1. After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized

   Synonym:    canonisesaint

2. treat as a sacred person
   1. He canonizes women

   Synonym:    canonise