sanctified

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}]
    

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.
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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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Sanctified \Sanc"ti*fied\, a.
   Made holy; also, made to have the air of sanctity;
   sanctimonious.
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62 Moby Thesaurus words for "sanctified":
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      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