canonise

Verb

canonise (third-person singular simple present canonises, present participle canonising, simple past and past participle canonised)

1. Non-Oxford British English spelling of canonize.
   • [T]hat a rhetorician, like Libanius, a Pagan even to madneſs, ſhould think the Chriſtians capable of attempting the life of Julian, is not ſurpriſing. [...] But that an eccleſiaſtical hiſtorian, like Sozomen, ſhould be tempted to canoniſe ſo deteſtable an action, might perhaps not be credited on my...1784, [Jean-Philippe-René] de La Bléterie, “History of the Emperor Jovian”, in John Duncombe, transl., Select Works of the Emperor Julian, and Some Pieces of the Sophist Libanius, Translated from the...
   • Fifty-eight years ago Jolyon had become an Eton boy, for old Jolyon's whim had been that he should be canonised at the greatest possible expense.1921 September, John Galsworthy, “Old Jolyon Walks”, in To Let, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 229