canon

Usage

• canonical

  Something that is canonical is accepted as being accurate and authoritative--it possesses all the qualities that a thing of its kind should have.

• canonize

  When the Catholic Church canonizes someone, they are officially declared a saint; by extension, canonizing a person is to treat them as nearly sacred, whereas canonizing a work of art is to place it in an accepted group of the very best of its kind.

• canon

  a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy

• canonise

  treat as a sacred person