"Canonize" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... precisely in the same way all these diversities of character and condition are necessary to constitute and complete the idea of a Christian Church. For as in ages past it was the delight of the Church to canonize one particular class of virtues—as for instance, purity or martyrdom—so now, in every age, and in every individual bosom, there is a tendency to canonize, or honour, or reckon as Christian, only one or two classes of Christian qualities. For example, if you ...
— Sermons Preached at Brighton - Third Series • Frederick W. Robertson
... League terminated brilliantly and tumultuously, as it began. The friends of the king rejoiced, the preachers proposed to canonize Brother Henri, and spoke everywhere of the great deeds of the Valois. The favorites said, "The lion is roused." The leaguers said, "The fox has discovered ...
— Chicot the Jester - [An abridged translation of "La dame de Monsoreau"] • Alexandre Dumas
... human sacrifices, immolation, mactation[obs3], infanticide, self-immolation, suttee. idol, golden calf, graven image, fetich, avatar, Juggernath[obs3], lares et penates[Lat]; Baal &c. 986[obs3]. V. worship idols, worship pictures, worship relics; deify, canonize. Adj. idolatrous. Phr. adorer ...
— Roget's Thesaurus |
