 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hallowed
adjective: worthy of religious veneration; "the sacred name of Jesus";
"Jerusalem's hallowed soil" [syn: {sacred}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
hallowed \hallowed\ adjective
belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine
power; made holy. Opposite of {unholy}. [Narrower terms:
{beatified, blessed ; {blessed ; {consecrated, sacred,
sanctified ] Also See: {consecrated}, {consecrate}, {sacred}.
Syn: holy.
[WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hallow \Hal"low\ (h[a^]l"l[-o]), verb (used with an object) [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.
Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. --Jer.
xvii. 24.
His secret altar touched with hallowed fire. --Milton.
In a larger sense . . . we can not hallow this ground
[Gettysburg]. --A. Lincoln.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
|
