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Sanctify v. t. (past & past part. sanctified; pres. part. sanctifying)

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." "Moses... sanctified Aaron and his garments."

To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify. "Sanctify them through thy truth."

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."

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." "Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line."

adjective

Sanctified adj. Made holy; also, made to have the air of sanctity; sanctimonious.

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Etymology of 'Sanctified'

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"Sanctified" Quotes from Famous Books

... Murillo, to any one of which our admiration hesitates to award the pre-eminence,—and if the crown of laurels which a Pope laid upon the funeral couch of Raphael is the consecration of the sovereignty of the painter of Urbino for History, the universally popular name of Murillo has also sanctified the incontestable genius ...

— Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Esther Singleton

... as generally necessary to salvation, is provided for by the presence of the Font. As its name indicates (from the Latin word for a fountain or spring), this is the repository for the pure water which in this holy Sacrament is "sanctified to the mystical washing away of sin." It is generally of fine stone and often richly carved. Sometimes a separate room is marked off from the rest of the church for it and called a baptistery. There should always be, for proper protection, a cover for the Font. A ewer for the water to be used, ...

— The Worship of the Church - and The Beauty of Holiness • Jacob A. Regester

... wouldst, if thou couldst feel, Abjure such envious fame—great Otho died 10 Like thee—he sanctified his country's steel, At once the tyrant and tyrannicide, In his own blood—a deed it was to bring Tears from all men—though full of gentle pride, Such pride as from impetuous love may spring, 15 That will not be ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley

... no evening, nor hath it setting; because Thou hast sanctified it to an everlasting continuance; that that which Thou didst after Thy works which were very good, resting the seventh day, although Thou madest them in unbroken rest, that may the voice of Thy Book announce beforehand ...

— The Confessions of Saint Augustine • Saint Augustine

... imploring anguish; "bethink thee well of the consequences of thy refusal. Thou canst not see them yet; thine ardour blinds thee. But, when hour after hour, day after day, year after year, steals on in the appalling monotony of this sanctified prison; when thou shalt see thy youth—withering without love—thine age without honour; when thy heart shall grow as stone within thee, beneath the looks of you icy spectres; when nothing shall vary the aching dulness of wasted life save a longer fast or a severer penance: then, then will ...

— Leila or, The Siege of Granada, Book V. • Edward Bulwer Lytton

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