Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not canonized; not enrolled among the saints.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of uncanonize.

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Examples

  • Speaking of Santería, head across the street and browse the problem-solving potions at Botanica Negra Francisca 1323 S.W. 8th St., 305-860-9328 and leave a few coins as an offering to San Lazaro, the uncanonized Cuban saint who is said to protect the poor and cure diseases.

    Take Monday Off: Cuban Miami Matt Schwartz 2011

  • If we survive these most recent environmental and demographic challenges it will not be because we deserve to survive, it will be by some as yet unknown resource of mercy held captive within an uncanonized group of saints operating in secret and on our behalf.

    A Former Christian Says: Chew Dirty Juice 2008

  • Democritus (who was uncanonized only because the Holy See was still wavering, an anomalous body, in _Weissnichtwo_, and who existed forty days on the mere sight of bread and honey) had been regaled with the piquant delicacies of Lowell's picture of a Critic, he might have continued unto this present.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • The earliest printed work of this kind is possibly that which bears the title "Menologium Carmelitanum" compiled by the Carmelite, Saracenus, and printed at Bologna in 1627; but this is not arrranged day by day in the order of the ecclesiastical year, and it does not include members of the order yet uncanonized.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • St. Vincent de Paul, who was with him at his death, considered him a saint; and Father Faber, in his "Growth in Holiness" (Baltimore ed., p. 376) says of him: "Of all the uncanonized servants of God whose lives I have read, he most resembles a canonized Saint."

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • They were assisted by a rich lady named Lucilla, who had a grudge against Caecilian because he had rebuked her habit of kissing the bone of an uncanonized (non vindicatus) martyr immediately before receiving Holy Communion.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • His own words in this “Journal, ” of an extraordinary simplicity and charm, are the best expression of a personality which in its ardor, purity of motive, breadth of sympathy, and clear spiritual insight, gives Woolman a place among the uncanonized saints of America.

    Introductory Note 1909

  • Rome, accordingly, cries out that Luther is become the uncanonized saint of Protestantism, yea, the deified expounder of the evangelical faith.

    Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation 1904

  • The uncanonical books were described simply as "those without" or "those uncanonized."

    Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

  • "Needles of Devotion," wielded by canonized and uncanonized saints in and out of nunneries; or:

    The Development of Embroidery in America Candace Wheeler 1875

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