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1. trans. To remove from the canon or calendar of saints.
1607. R. C[arew], trans. Estienne’s World Wond., 348. A Monke … who was almost as soone vncanonized as canonized.
1651. Jane, Image Unbr., 32. The Authors Pageantry playing with a picture is not the way to uncannonize a saint.
1751. Lavington, Enthus. Meth. & Papists, III. (1754), 214. He [Boniface VIII.] uncanonized St. Herman of France, and ordered his Bones to be dug up and burned.
2. To reject from the canon of Scripture, or of authoritative writings.
a. 1706. Evelyn, Hist. Relig. (1850), I. 409. And it is enough to read the two last verses of the second of Maccabees quite to uncanonize them.
1812. T. Jefferson, Writ. (1830), IV. 179. The exclusion from the courts of the malign influence of all authorities after the Georgium sidus became ascendant, would uncanonize Blackstone.
