Word Meanings - SANCTIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 garnment. Lev. viii. 30. 2. To make

Additional info about word: SANCTIFY

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 garnment. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SANCTIFY)

• Consecrate
• Dedicate
• devote
• enshrine
• hallow
• sanctify
• Hallow
• venerate
• reverence
• dedicate

Related words: (words related to SANCTIFY)

• HALLOW
  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. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• ENSHRINE
  To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory. We will enshrine it as holy relic. Massinger.
• DEVOTE
  1. To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames. No devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the Lord
• DEVOTED
  Consecrated to a purpose; strongly attached; zealous; devout; as, a devoted admirer. -- De*vot"ed*ly, adv. -- De*vot"ed*ness, n.
• DEVOTEMENT
  The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow. Bp. Hurd.
• REVERENCER
  One who regards with reverence. "Reverencers of crowned heads." Swift.
• SANCTIFYINGLY
  In a manner or degree tending to sanctify or make holy.
• DEDICATE
  Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated. "Dedicate to nothing temporal." Shak. Syn. -- Devoted; consecrated; addicted. (more info) to dedicate; de- + dicare to declare, dedicate; akin to dicere to
• HALLOWEEN
  The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day. Burns.
• CONSECRATER
  Consecrator.
• SANCTIFY
  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 garnment. Lev. viii. 30. 2. To make
• DEVOTER
  One who devotes; a worshiper.
• DEDICATEE
  One to whom a thing is dedicated; -- correlative to dedicator.
• HALLOWMAS
  The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows. To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. Shak.
• CONSECRATE
  Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon.
• REVERENCE
  1. Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration. If thou be poor, farewell thy reverence. Chaucer. Reverence, which is the synthesis of love and fear. Coleridge.
• DEVOTEE
  One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot. While Father Le Blanc was very devout he was not a devotee. A. S. Hardy.
• VENERATE
  To regard with reverential respect; to honor with mingled respect and awe; to reverence; to revere; as, we venerate parents and elders. And seemed to venerate the sacred shade. Dryden. I do not know a man more to be venerated for uprightness of
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• DECONSECRATE
  To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n.
• DISCONSECRATE
  To deprive of consecration or sacredness.
• UNHALLOWED
  Not consecrated; hence, profane; unholy; impious; wicked. In the cause of truth, no unhallowed violence . . . is either necessary or admissible. E. D. Griffin.
• UNREVERENCE
  Absence or lack of reverence; irreverence. Wyclif.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• DISREVERENCE
  To treat irreverently or with disrespect. Sir T. More.
• MISCONSECRATE
  To consecrate amiss. "Misconsecrated flags." Bp. Hall.
• SHALLOW-WAISTED
  Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
• SHALLOW
  schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
• UNCONSECRATE
  To render not sacred; to deprive of sanctity; to desecrate. South.
• ALLHALLOW
  The evening before Allhallows. See Halloween.
• ALLHALLOW; ALLHALLOWS
  1. All the saints . 2. All Saints' Day, November 1st.