Middle English Dictionary Entry
canonīzen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | canonīzen v. Also can(n)onisen. Ppl. y)canonized, cananist. |
| Etymology | ML canonīzāre & OF canonisier. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To recognize (sb.) officially as a saint, canonize; (b) to install (sb.) in an ecclesiastical office.
Associated quotations
a
- a1425(?c1384) Wycl.Church (Bod 788)344 : Summe þenken a greet evidence, þat if þe pope canonise þis man, þanne he mut nedis be seint in hevene.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)87/25 : A man amanges vs wald think it a grete wirschepe, if þer ware in his kyn canonized a haly martir or a confessour.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)125/37 : A good man, þe whech was þe good Priowrys confessor, þat is now canonysed.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest M.7 Boys (SeldSup 52)st.42 : Holy chyrch hath þem cananyst als marters.
- (1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)113/25 : Þere he solemply & openly canonized Seynt Gilbert.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)73.241 (v.2:p.52) : Pope Innocent the fourth had canonized this blissid martir and ascrived hym to the nombre [L martyrum catalogo ascripsisset] and the worship of seyntis in heven.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)253 : This same ȝere was Thomas of Lancastir canonized: for it was seid comounly that he schuld nevir be canonzied onto the tyme that alle the juges that sat upon him were ded.
- a1475 Against Lollards (Vsp B.16)p.246 : Yut fourme shulde we none repreve, Nether of Marie ne of Jon, Petre, Poule, ne other none Canonised by clergie.
- a1500(c1380) Wycl.Papa (Ryl Eng 86)475 : Þus anticrist myȝte not for shame canonyse þis emperour.
b
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.2821 : Thus was he Pope canonized Wit gret honour and intronized.
- c1425(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)57 : Wan any auerous or couetous is canonized in þe kirk, or maad cheef..And wan a bacbitar is canonizid, þan haþ þat kirk gendrid a serpent.
2.
(a) To establish (sth.) by official action of the Church, grant ecclesiastical approval to; laue canonized, canon law; (b) to accept (sth.) as valid or true by official act of the Church; epistel canonized, one of the Catholic Epistles.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)8.144 : For of the lawe canonized, The Pope hath bede to the men That non schal wedden of his ken, Ne the seconde ne the thridde.
- c1425(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)15 : In materis to be don..confermid, canonized, autenkid..a geyn ani man, or for ani þing, me semiþ now spedy to sey summe þings.
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)137/35 : Seynt Gregory..made hom do þe same ych ȝere on Saynt Markeys day, boþe fast and go on processyon, and canonysyt hit, forto be don alway aftyr.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)139/8 : This fastyngis is canonyzed at Rome.
b
- (c1384) WBible(1) Prol.Cath.Epist.(NYPubLib 67)594 : Not the same ordre is at Greekis, that holly sauouren, and the riȝte feith folewen, of the seuene epistolis that ben clepid canonysid, as in Latyn bokys.
- ?a1425(a1415) Wycl.Lantern (Hrl 2324)21/10 : Seint Iame beriþ witnes of þis þing in his epistil canonysid.
- ?a1425(a1415) Wycl.Lantern (Hrl 2324)31/26 : Here summe obiectun þat þe gospel is not of autorite, but in as miche as þe chirche haþ autorised it & cannonisid it.
- c1450(c1405) Mum & S.(2) (Add 41666)1621 : Crist is lawe is y-canonized canon.
- c1425(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)46 : Syn þer wordis are canonized and approuid of holi kirk..be houiþ to graunt þer wordis.