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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sanctified \Sanc"ti*fied\, adjective Made holy; also, made to have the air of sanctity; sanctimonious.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sanctify \Sanc"ti*fy\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Sanctified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sanctifying}.] [F. sanctifier, L. sanctificare; sanctus holy + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See {Saint}, and {-fy}.]
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 garments. --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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sanctify
verb
1: render holy by means of religious rites [syn: {consecrate}, {bless}, {hallow}] [ant: {desecrate}]
2: make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified" [syn: {purify}, {purge}] [also: {sanctified}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sanctified
adjective: made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use; "a consecrated chursh"; "the sacred mosque"; "sacred elephants"; "sacred bread and wine"; "sanctified wine" [syn: {consecrated}, {sacred}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sanctified See {sanctify}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "sanctified": Tartuffian, Tartuffish, affected, aggrandized, apotheosized, awesome, beatified, big, blessed, canonized, canting, consecrated, converted, dedicated, deified, devoted, elevated, eminent, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, exalted, excellent, false, glorified, goody, goody-goody, grand, great, hallowed, held in awe, high, high and mighty, holier-than-thou, hypocritical, immortal, immortalized, insincere, lofty, magnified, mealymouthed, mighty, pharisaic, pietistic, pious, reborn, redeemed, regenerate, regenerated, sacred, sainted, saintly, sanctimonious, saved, self-righteous, set apart, shrined, sniveling, sublime, supereminent, throned, unctuous
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