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unˈcanonized, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not admitted into the canon of Scripture.
1548Geste Pr. Masse 129 The last consayl..regestered ye bible bokes without any mencion made of the Machabees at al, which argueth that then the bokes of Machabees were uncanonised. 1860Westcott in Smith's Dict. Bible I. 251/1 The uncanonical books were described simply as ‘those without’, or ‘those uncanonized’.
2. Not formally recognized (as a saint).
a1643A. Townshend Poems (1912) 34 If he tooke the style before, And name uncanonized wore,..This Saint [etc.]. 1718Atterbury Serm. Acts xxvi. 26 (1734) III. 17 The Members of it boast very much of mighty Signs and Wonders wrought by some Canonized, and some Uncanonized Saints; their Legends, their Sermons are full of them. 1771E. Griffith Hist. Lady Barton III. 220, I passed six days with this uncanonized saint. 1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley xiv, The uncanonized saint and benefactress to the poor. |