[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. CANONIZE; canonization: a. Admission into the calendar of saints.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Serm., xxix. Sel. Wks. III. 456. Þo canonysynge of þo seyntes.
a. 1638. Mede, Apost. Latter Times, iv. Wks. (1672), 629. The Canonizing of the Souls of deceased Worthies … was an Idolatrous trick even from the days of the elder world.
1727. A. Hamilton, New Acc. E. Ind., II. li. 243. The Chinese are speedier in their canonizing than the Romans are.
b. Establishing as canonical.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., III. xlii. 282. The Canonizing, or making of the Scripture Law, belonged to the Civill Soveraigne.
