Hallowed

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hallow \Hal"low\ (h[a^]l"l[-o]), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Hallowed}(-l[-o]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Hallowing}.] [OE.
     halowen, halwien, halgien, AS. h[=a]lgian, fr. h[=a]lig holy.
     See {Holy}.]
     To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to
     consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence.


     "Hallowed be thy name." --Matt. vi. 9.
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           Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. --Jer.
                                                    xvii. 24.
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           His secret altar touched with hallowed fire. --Milton.
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           In a larger sense . . . we can not hallow this ground
           [Gettysburg].                            --A. Lincoln.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  hallowed \hallowed\ adj.
     belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine
     power; made holy. Opposite of {unholy}. [Narrower terms:
     {beatified, blessed ; {blessed ; {consecrated, sacred,
     sanctified ] Also See: {consecrated}, {consecrate}, {sacred}.
  
     Syn: holy.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hallowed
       adj : worthy of religious veneration; "the sacred name of Jesus";
             "Jerusalem's hallowed soil" [syn: {sacred}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  85 Moby Thesaurus words for "hallowed":
     acknowledged, admitted, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing,
     all-wise, almighty, beatified, blessed, boundless, canonized,
     changeless, consecrated, conventional, creating, creative,
     customary, dedicated, devoted, established, eternal,
     eternally the same, everlasting, fixed, folk, glorious, good,
     handed down, heroic, highest, hoary, holy, immemorial, immortal,
     immutable, infinite, inveterate, just, legendary, limitless,
     long-established, long-standing, loving, luminous, majestic,
     making, merciful, mythological, numinous, of long standing,
     of the folk, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, oral,
     permanent, perpetual, prescriptive, radiant, received, recognized,
     rooted, sacred, sainted, saintly, sanctified, set apart, shaping,
     sovereign, supreme, time-honored, timeless, traditional,
     tried and true, true-blue, ubiquitous, unbounded, unchanging,
     undefined, understood, unlimited, unwritten, venerable,
     worshipful