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sanctified |
3 definitions found 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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