[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["Ecclesiastical.to place in the canon saints.Compare beatify(def2) beatify(def2).", "to glorify.", "to make canonical ;place or include within a canon, especially of scriptural works:They canonized the Song of Solomon after much controversy.", "to consider or treat as sacrosanct or holy:They canonized his many verbal foibles and made them gospel.", "to sanction or approve authoritatively, especially ecclesiastically.", "Archaic.to deify."]}]