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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Saint \Saint\ (s[=a]nt), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Sainted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sainting}.] To make a saint of; to enroll among the saints by an offical act, as of the pope; to canonize; to give the title or reputation of a saint to (some one).
A large hospital, erected by a shoemaker who has been beatified, though never sainted. --Addison.
{To saint it}, to act as a saint, or with a show of piety.
Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it. --Pope.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sainted \Saint"ed\, adjective
1. Consecrated; sacred; holy; pious. ''A most sainted king.'' --Shak.
Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats. --Milton.
2. Entered into heaven; -- a euphemism for {dead}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sainted
adjective: marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint; "angelic benificence"; "a beatific smile"; "a saintly concern for his fellow men"; "my sainted mother" [syn: {angelic}, {angelical}, {beatific}, {saintlike}, {saintly}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "sainted": aggrandized, angelic, apotheosized, archangelic, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, awesome, beatified, bereft of life, big, blessed, breathless, called home, canonized, carrion, celestial, cherubic, consecrated, croaked, dead, dead and gone, death-struck, deceased, dedicated, defunct, deified, demised, departed, departed this life, destitute of life, devoted, done for, elevated, eminent, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, exalted, exanimate, excellent, fallen, finished, food for worms, glorified, gone, gone to glory, gone west, grand, great, hallowed, heavenly, held in awe, high, high and mighty, immortal, immortalized, in glory, inanimate, late, late lamented, launched into eternity, lifeless, lofty, magnified, martyred, mighty, no more, passed on, pushing up daisies, redeemed, released, reposing, resting easy, saintly, sanctified, saved, seraphic, set apart, shrined, sleeping, smitten with death, still, stillborn, sublime, supereminent, taken away, taken off, throned, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions
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