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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sanctified \Sanc"ti*fied\, a.
Made holy; also made to have the air of sanctity;
sanctimonious.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it
--Gen. ii 3.
Moses . . . sanctified Aaron and his garments.
--Lev. viii.
30.
2. To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption
and pollution; to purify.
Sanctify them through thy truth. --John xvii.
17.
3. To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render
productive of holiness or piety.
A means which his mercy hath sanctified so to me as
to make me repent of that unjust act --Eikon
Basilike
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
The holy man, amazed at what he saw, Made haste to
sanctify the bliss by law. --Dryden.
Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line --Pope.
From WordNet r 1.6 [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}]
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