[f. as prec. + -ER.] One who canonizes.
1588. A. King, trans. Canisius’ Catech., K j. The canonizars of thir new sanctes.
1588. G. D., Disc. Allen’s Sedit. Drifts, 99. An open patrone of … trecherie, and a cannoniser of disloyall traytors.
1751. Bp. Lavington, Enthusiasm (1754), III. 216. Such Canonizers and God-makers.
1821. Blackw. Mag., X. 697. The canonizer is worthy of the saint.
