Word: canonization
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...breach of tradition. There seems to have been general sympathy with this protest; for the Americans have always tried to be a legal nation ever since Edmund Burke told them that they were such, and so public opinion criticised the Methodist tribunals for not having a consistent body of Canon Law to guide their decisions in the varied cases which came before them. Therefore the institution fell into discredit and received the contemptuous nickname of Ku Klux Klan, a corruption of an old wrestling term "Catch-as-catch...
...defiance of the authority and law of the Church of which you are a minister . . . and I hereby admonish you that if you proceed in defiance of the inhibition of the Bishop of the Diocese such action upon your part will be in direct violation of the constitution and canons of the Church, and will be regarded as conduct unbecoming a clergyman under the terms of Canon 28 of the General Convention...
...Arizona, an expedition sent by Edward L. Doheny, oil man, found pictures of dinosaurs, American elephants, prehistoric deer and men, scratched in the "desert varnish" (black iron scale) on a vertical, red sandstone canon wall...
Last week, actors of high and low degree, literati, publicists crowded into the Church of the Transfiguration (for that is its official name), listened to John Drew; Canon Dwelly of Liverpool Cathedral assisted at the unveiling of a window to the memory of Joseph Jefferson. On it the idiom is inscribed...
...compile a biography equally meticulous. But the service she does Keats is one which involves but does not depend upon any new documents, acumen or industry; it is a service of psychological interpretation which Miss Lowell is peculiarly fitted to give, and which may well become the first canon of a new technic in biographic criticism...