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[syn: consecrated, sacred, sanctified]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sanctified \Sanc"ti*fied\, a.
Made holy; also, made to have the air of sanctity;
sanctimonious.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
17.
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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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sanctified
adj 1: made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a
deity or some religious ceremony or use; "a consecrated
church"; "the sacred mosque"; "sacred elephants"; "sacred
bread and wine"; "sanctified wine" [syn: consecrated,
sacred, sanctified]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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