hallowed

hallowed
    adj 1: worthy of religious veneration; "the sacred name of
           Jesus"; "Jerusalem's hallowed soil" [syn: {hallowed},
           {sacred}]
    

Hallow \Hal"low\ (h[a^]l"l[-o]), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Hallowed}(-l[-o]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Hallowing}.] [OE.
   halowen, halwien, halgien, AS. h[=a]lgian, fr. h[=a]lig holy.
   See {Holy}.]
   To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to
   consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence.
   "Hallowed be thy name." --Matt. vi. 9.
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         Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. --Jer.
                                                  xvii. 24.
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         His secret altar touched with hallowed fire. --Milton.
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         In a larger sense . . . we can not hallow this ground
         [Gettysburg].                            --A. Lincoln.
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hallowed \hallowed\ adj.
   belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine
   power; made holy. Opposite of {unholy}. [Narrower terms:
    

85 Moby Thesaurus words for "hallowed":
      acknowledged, admitted, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing,
      all-wise, almighty, beatified, blessed, boundless, canonized,
      changeless, consecrated, conventional, creating, creative,
      customary, dedicated, devoted, established, eternal,
      eternally the same, everlasting, fixed, folk, glorious, good,
      handed down, heroic, highest, hoary, holy, immemorial, immortal,
      immutable, infinite, inveterate, just, legendary, limitless,
      long-established, long-standing, loving, luminous, majestic,
      making, merciful, mythological, numinous, of long standing,
      of the folk, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, oral,
      permanent, perpetual, prescriptive, radiant, received, recognized,
      rooted, sacred, sainted, saintly, sanctified, set apart, shaping,
      sovereign, supreme, time-honored, timeless, traditional,
      tried and true, true-blue, ubiquitous, unbounded, unchanging,
      undefined, understood, unlimited, unwritten, venerable,
      worshipful