Sanctified

6 definitions found

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

  Sanctify \Sanc"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sanctified}; p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Sanctifying}.] [F. sanctifier, L. sanctificare;
     sanctus holy + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See {Saint}, and
     {-fy}.]
     1. To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or
        religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to


        hallow.
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              God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.
                                                    --Gen. ii. 3.
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              Moses . . . sanctified Aaron and his garments.
                                                    --Lev. viii.
                                                    30.
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     2. To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption
        and pollution; to purify.
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              Sanctify them through thy truth.      --John xvii.
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     3. To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render
        productive of holiness or piety.
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              A means which his mercy hath sanctified so to me as
              to make me repent of that unjust act. --Eikon
                                                    Basilike.
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     4. To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness,
        inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the
        like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to.
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              The holy man, amazed at what he saw,
              Made haste to sanctify the bliss by law. --Dryden.
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              Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line. --Pope.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sanctified \Sanc"ti*fied\, a.
     Made holy; also, made to have the air of sanctity;
     sanctimonious.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sanctify
       v 1: render holy by means of religious rites [syn: {consecrate},
            {bless}, {hallow}] [ant: {desecrate}]
       2: make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery
          purified" [syn: {purify}, {purge}]
       [also: {sanctified}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sanctified
       adj : made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity
             or some religious ceremony or use; "a consecrated
             chursh"; "the sacred mosque"; "sacred elephants";
             "sacred bread and wine"; "sanctified wine" [syn: {consecrated},
              {sacred}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sanctified
       See {sanctify}

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

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "sanctified":
     Tartuffian, Tartuffish, affected, aggrandized, apotheosized,
     awesome, beatified, big, blessed, canonized, canting, consecrated,
     converted, dedicated, deified, devoted, elevated, eminent,
     ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, exalted, excellent, false,
     glorified, goody, goody-goody, grand, great, hallowed, held in awe,
     high, high and mighty, holier-than-thou, hypocritical, immortal,
     immortalized, insincere, lofty, magnified, mealymouthed, mighty,
     pharisaic, pietistic, pious, reborn, redeemed, regenerate,
     regenerated, sacred, sainted, saintly, sanctimonious, saved,
     self-righteous, set apart, shrined, sniveling, sublime,
     supereminent, throned, unctuous