Definition of sanctify in English:

sanctify

verbsanctified, sanctifies, sanctifying ˈsaŋ(k)tɪfʌɪˈsæŋ(k)təˌfaɪ

[with object]

1Set apart as or declare holy; consecrate.
使神圣化；使神圣不可侵犯
a small shrine was built to sanctify the site
修建了一个小小的基督教圣坛以使该处成为圣地。
Example sentencesExamples
- Earlier in the day, he said the Dalai Lama was scheduled to sanctify a Buddhist temple in Elista, the Kalmyk capital, and that no meetings with Russian officials were planned.
- Formal Victorian monuments are no longer enough, it seems, to evoke memory and sanctify the sacred.
- It was for the solemn task of protecting and sanctifying the ducal resting place that Philip chose the most austere of the religious orders.
- Yet cattle, the possession sacrificed by male elders to sanctify rituals of ukuzila, were dying off.
- This historic church has been sanctified by the prayers and praises of countless thousands who have worshipped within its walls.
- Rituals by the Converted temporarily sanctify specific locations - a house, the market square, a crossroads, a beach - for services they hold there.
- They sanctified the Holy Days and consecrated the marriage vows.
- To some extent the earth sanctified by the priest may be regarded as a Christian item.
- As the promising young Christian leader in his rural South African village, James is dispatched on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, an experience intended to sanctify his succession as the next pastor.
- The use of Catholic ritual to sanctify the Revolution parallels the crucial role that the Church played in the events of 1789 and 1790.
- It's an awesome place and the Celts associated it with their Goddess of Waters, Sul, sanctifying it into a shrine.
Synonyms
consecrate, make holy, make sacred, bless, hallow, set apart, dedicate to God, anoint, ordain, canonize, beatify
1. 1.1 Make legitimate or binding by a religious ceremony.
  经教会批准而使合法化，使具有约束力
  their love is sanctified by the sacrament of marriage
  他们认为他们的爱情得到了神圣婚姻的认可。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Nine monks performed a ritual ceremony to sanctify the shrine, and blessed the local residents and the surrounding area.
  And insofar as it's sanctified by a religious ceremony, that's up to the churches involved.
  Legal institutions brought over from England at the founding of the colonies defined all these dependent relationships (except slavery) and powerful religious traditions sanctified them.
  An assembly of 90 monks conducted Buddhist ritual chants and prayers sanctifying the ceremony.
  Starting at 9 a.m. on Friday May 11, nine monks performed a religious ceremony to sanctify the new branch office.
  This ‘religious’ object is now sanctified daily by priests with poojas.
  Larger Orthodox churches are often constructed in a cross in-square configuration, and all contain an icon screen separating the sanctuary where communion bread and wine are sanctified from the rest of the building.
  They sanctified the ground and declared that should whites attempt to attack the Red Sticks here, their bullets would fall harmlessly to the ground.
  It was sanctified in the public sphere by religion as well as by the power of kinship.
  Newborns are sanctified by prayer and undergo head-shaving and naming ceremonies.
  Mother Theresa, to be sanctified next spring, once said that she sometimes prayed for 24 hours.
  The grave was then dug, if this had not already been done, and sanctified by a priest with holy water and incense.
  A revered monk performs a ritual ceremony to sanctify the signs at each of the guesthouses at her Ban Ruan Thai Kalae.
  Thus, hand fasted relationships could be broken as they were not sanctified by Holy Church, a nasty invidious Norman custom that was just coming in.
  Building a family through a marriage sanctified by a religious ceremony is considered one of the most sacred aspects of life.
  For good measure, it has been built to vaastu specifications and, before its departure, was sanctified by Judev at a special ceremony where 101 coconuts were broken and a goat sacrificed!
  Bait Hillel states that first you bless the wine then sanctify the Shabbat.
  They turned to Dutch religious rituals to sanctify their marriages and to validate their babies as Christians to enhance their chances for emancipation.
  Last Monday at 11 a.m., 9 monks led religious ceremonies to sanctify the occasion and create solidarity among the 1,500 plus local government employees.
  Despite the doomsday rhetoric, I have yet to see a single example of how a particular class of citizens sanctifying their union via marriage will wreck that institution.
  Synonyms
  approve, sanction, give the stamp of approval to, underwrite, condone, justify, vindicate, endorse, support, back, ratify, confirm, warrant, permit, allow, accredit, authorize, legitimize, legitimatize
2. 1.2 Free from sin; purify.
  免除…的罪恶；使圣洁化，使净化
  may God sanctify his soul
  Example sentencesExamples
  The church will sanctify your body and soul on Sundays.
  And while this play deals, like all his work, with the conflict between the poetic soul and materialism, I feel Williams sanctifies the dead Sebastian.
  The young curate replied that ‘a strong faith in the Incarnation and the Real Presence of Jesus Christ sanctifies all human things [,] not excluding human mirth and beauty’.
  Jesus Christ returns to his followers and breathes on them the power of forgiving love, thus restoring and re-commissioning them for the work of healing and sanctifying the world - a new creation.
  That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word.
  Synonyms
  purify, cleanse, free from sin, absolve, unburden, redeem, exculpate, wash someone's sins away
  rare lustrate
3. 1.3 Cause to be or seem morally right or acceptable.
  ancient customs that are sanctified by tradition
  Example sentencesExamples
  On the one hand, Michelangelo sought to restore the devotional image, strengthening its hold on a new cut of viewer; on the other, he aimed to sanctify the modern aesthetic, linking Renaissance techniques back into archaic types.
  At home, womanhood was idealized and sanctified, while women themselves were denied such basic rights of citizenship as the vote.
  As a joke, it succeeds marvelously, taking square aim at the government that borrows from the perceived grandeur of the British colonial era to sanctify the art made by its own citizens.
  Those terms were settled, and indeed sanctified, in the long struggle down the centuries to the founding and then to the preservation, the protection and the defence of our liberal representative democracy.
  By model and practice, families nested children in webs of relationships, sanctified through kin or kin-like (idiomatic kin) moralities.

Derivatives

sanctification

noun saŋ(k)tɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)nˌsæŋ(k)təfəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n

The pilgrimage of sanctification after the moment of justification is an avenue by which bonds frayed by rejection of one tradition in favor of another can be healed.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the process she achieves a kind of sanctification and transcendence through martyrdom.
- It is well known that the great Pope Gregory deliberately charged his missionaries to graft the new on to the old by purifying pagan rites and the sanctification of existing customs.
- It is a day of sanctification and holiness, and pre-empts all other holy days, and it is a memorial of the creation of the world and of the exodus from Egypt, as well as a memorial to the pact between God and the Hebrews, the covenant.
- Arrogating universality to itself, the authoritarian state which arose over these exclusive particulars thwarted the self-activity of its people, and concealed the source of its authority behind a veil of religious sanctification.

sanctifier

noun ˈsaŋ(k)tɪfʌɪəˈsæŋ(k)təˌfaɪ(ə)r

May they joyfully complete their mission as guides, teachers and sanctifiers awaiting your glorious coming.
Example sentencesExamples
- There is no sense in this passage, however, that either spouse replaces Christ as savior / sanctifier; the implication seems rather that he or she will serve as a witness to Christ.
- The creed does state the basic Christian convictions concerning the Triune God as creator, savior, and sanctifier, and the basic Christian story from Creation, through Incarnation, to the world to come.
- Our one God is a Sanctifier.
- The Spirit is a washer, a justifier, a sanctifier.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French saintifier (influenced later by sanctifier), from ecclesiastical Latin sanctificare, from Latin sanctus 'holy'.

saint from Middle English:
Saint comes via Old French, from Latin sanctus ‘holy’. The word has been used in the names of many diseases such as St Vitus' dance (early 17th century) with the supposition that the associated saint would ward off the illness. Also based on sanctus are sanctify (Late Middle English), sanctity (Late Middle English), sanctimonious (early 17th century) originally meaning ‘holy in character’, and sanctuary (Middle English) originally a holy place where you were safe from attack or arrest. A sanction (Late Middle English) was originally an ecclesiastical decree and comes from Latin sancere which meant both ‘to make holy’ and ‘to decree’.

Definition of sanctify in US English:

sanctify

verbˈsaNG(k)təˌfīˈsæŋ(k)təˌfaɪ

[with object]

1Set apart as or declare holy; consecrate.
使神圣化；使神圣不可侵犯
a small shrine was built to sanctify the site
修建了一个小小的基督教圣坛以使该处成为圣地。
Example sentencesExamples
- As the promising young Christian leader in his rural South African village, James is dispatched on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, an experience intended to sanctify his succession as the next pastor.
- Formal Victorian monuments are no longer enough, it seems, to evoke memory and sanctify the sacred.
- The use of Catholic ritual to sanctify the Revolution parallels the crucial role that the Church played in the events of 1789 and 1790.
- Rituals by the Converted temporarily sanctify specific locations - a house, the market square, a crossroads, a beach - for services they hold there.
- It's an awesome place and the Celts associated it with their Goddess of Waters, Sul, sanctifying it into a shrine.
- Yet cattle, the possession sacrificed by male elders to sanctify rituals of ukuzila, were dying off.
- This historic church has been sanctified by the prayers and praises of countless thousands who have worshipped within its walls.
- It was for the solemn task of protecting and sanctifying the ducal resting place that Philip chose the most austere of the religious orders.
- Earlier in the day, he said the Dalai Lama was scheduled to sanctify a Buddhist temple in Elista, the Kalmyk capital, and that no meetings with Russian officials were planned.
- To some extent the earth sanctified by the priest may be regarded as a Christian item.
- They sanctified the Holy Days and consecrated the marriage vows.
Synonyms
consecrate, make holy, make sacred, bless, hallow, set apart, dedicate to god, anoint, ordain, canonize, beatify
1. 1.1 Make legitimate or binding by religious sanction.
  经教会批准而使合法化，使具有约束力
  they see their love sanctified by the sacrament of marriage
  他们认为他们的爱情得到了神圣婚姻的认可。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They turned to Dutch religious rituals to sanctify their marriages and to validate their babies as Christians to enhance their chances for emancipation.
  Larger Orthodox churches are often constructed in a cross in-square configuration, and all contain an icon screen separating the sanctuary where communion bread and wine are sanctified from the rest of the building.
  For good measure, it has been built to vaastu specifications and, before its departure, was sanctified by Judev at a special ceremony where 101 coconuts were broken and a goat sacrificed!
  Newborns are sanctified by prayer and undergo head-shaving and naming ceremonies.
  Legal institutions brought over from England at the founding of the colonies defined all these dependent relationships (except slavery) and powerful religious traditions sanctified them.
  And insofar as it's sanctified by a religious ceremony, that's up to the churches involved.
  Mother Theresa, to be sanctified next spring, once said that she sometimes prayed for 24 hours.
  Bait Hillel states that first you bless the wine then sanctify the Shabbat.
  Last Monday at 11 a.m., 9 monks led religious ceremonies to sanctify the occasion and create solidarity among the 1,500 plus local government employees.
  Nine monks performed a ritual ceremony to sanctify the shrine, and blessed the local residents and the surrounding area.
  This ‘religious’ object is now sanctified daily by priests with poojas.
  The grave was then dug, if this had not already been done, and sanctified by a priest with holy water and incense.
  It was sanctified in the public sphere by religion as well as by the power of kinship.
  An assembly of 90 monks conducted Buddhist ritual chants and prayers sanctifying the ceremony.
  A revered monk performs a ritual ceremony to sanctify the signs at each of the guesthouses at her Ban Ruan Thai Kalae.
  Thus, hand fasted relationships could be broken as they were not sanctified by Holy Church, a nasty invidious Norman custom that was just coming in.
  Building a family through a marriage sanctified by a religious ceremony is considered one of the most sacred aspects of life.
  Starting at 9 a.m. on Friday May 11, nine monks performed a religious ceremony to sanctify the new branch office.
  They sanctified the ground and declared that should whites attempt to attack the Red Sticks here, their bullets would fall harmlessly to the ground.
  Despite the doomsday rhetoric, I have yet to see a single example of how a particular class of citizens sanctifying their union via marriage will wreck that institution.
  Synonyms
  approve, sanction, give the stamp of approval to, underwrite, condone, justify, vindicate, endorse, support, back, ratify, confirm, warrant, permit, allow, accredit, authorize, legitimize, legitimatize
2. 1.2 Free from sin; purify.
  免除…的罪恶；使圣洁化，使净化
  Example sentencesExamples
  That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word.
  Jesus Christ returns to his followers and breathes on them the power of forgiving love, thus restoring and re-commissioning them for the work of healing and sanctifying the world - a new creation.
  The church will sanctify your body and soul on Sundays.
  And while this play deals, like all his work, with the conflict between the poetic soul and materialism, I feel Williams sanctifies the dead Sebastian.
  The young curate replied that ‘a strong faith in the Incarnation and the Real Presence of Jesus Christ sanctifies all human things [,] not excluding human mirth and beauty’.
  Synonyms
  purify, cleanse, free from sin, absolve, unburden, redeem, exculpate, wash someone's sins away
3. 1.3 Cause to be or seem morally right or acceptable.
  ancient customs that are sanctified by tradition
  Example sentencesExamples
  By model and practice, families nested children in webs of relationships, sanctified through kin or kin-like (idiomatic kin) moralities.
  Those terms were settled, and indeed sanctified, in the long struggle down the centuries to the founding and then to the preservation, the protection and the defence of our liberal representative democracy.
  As a joke, it succeeds marvelously, taking square aim at the government that borrows from the perceived grandeur of the British colonial era to sanctify the art made by its own citizens.
  On the one hand, Michelangelo sought to restore the devotional image, strengthening its hold on a new cut of viewer; on the other, he aimed to sanctify the modern aesthetic, linking Renaissance techniques back into archaic types.
  At home, womanhood was idealized and sanctified, while women themselves were denied such basic rights of citizenship as the vote.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French saintifier (influenced later by sanctifier), from ecclesiastical Latin sanctificare, from Latin sanctus ‘holy’.

词汇	sanctify
释义	Definition of sanctify in English: sanctify verbsanctified, sanctifies, sanctifying ˈsaŋ(k)tɪfʌɪˈsæŋ(k)təˌfaɪ [with object] 1Set apart as or declare holy; consecrate. 使神圣化；使神圣不可侵犯 a small shrine was built to sanctify the site 修建了一个小小的基督教圣坛以使该处成为圣地。 Example sentencesExamples Earlier in the day, he said the Dalai Lama was scheduled to sanctify a Buddhist temple in Elista, the Kalmyk capital, and that no meetings with Russian officials were planned. Formal Victorian monuments are no longer enough, it seems, to evoke memory and sanctify the sacred. It was for the solemn task of protecting and sanctifying the ducal resting place that Philip chose the most austere of the religious orders. Yet cattle, the possession sacrificed by male elders to sanctify rituals of ukuzila, were dying off. This historic church has been sanctified by the prayers and praises of countless thousands who have worshipped within its walls. Rituals by the Converted temporarily sanctify specific locations - a house, the market square, a crossroads, a beach - for services they hold there. They sanctified the Holy Days and consecrated the marriage vows. To some extent the earth sanctified by the priest may be regarded as a Christian item. As the promising young Christian leader in his rural South African village, James is dispatched on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, an experience intended to sanctify his succession as the next pastor. The use of Catholic ritual to sanctify the Revolution parallels the crucial role that the Church played in the events of 1789 and 1790. It's an awesome place and the Celts associated it with their Goddess of Waters, Sul, sanctifying it into a shrine. Synonyms consecrate, make holy, make sacred, bless, hallow, set apart, dedicate to God, anoint, ordain, canonize, beatify 1.1 Make legitimate or binding by a religious ceremony. 经教会批准而使合法化，使具有约束力 their love is sanctified by the sacrament of marriage 他们认为他们的爱情得到了神圣婚姻的认可。 Example sentencesExamples Nine monks performed a ritual ceremony to sanctify the shrine, and blessed the local residents and the surrounding area. And insofar as it's sanctified by a religious ceremony, that's up to the churches involved. Legal institutions brought over from England at the founding of the colonies defined all these dependent relationships (except slavery) and powerful religious traditions sanctified them. An assembly of 90 monks conducted Buddhist ritual chants and prayers sanctifying the ceremony. Starting at 9 a.m. on Friday May 11, nine monks performed a religious ceremony to sanctify the new branch office. This ‘religious’ object is now sanctified daily by priests with poojas. Larger Orthodox churches are often constructed in a cross in-square configuration, and all contain an icon screen separating the sanctuary where communion bread and wine are sanctified from the rest of the building. They sanctified the ground and declared that should whites attempt to attack the Red Sticks here, their bullets would fall harmlessly to the ground. It was sanctified in the public sphere by religion as well as by the power of kinship. Newborns are sanctified by prayer and undergo head-shaving and naming ceremonies. Mother Theresa, to be sanctified next spring, once said that she sometimes prayed for 24 hours. The grave was then dug, if this had not already been done, and sanctified by a priest with holy water and incense. A revered monk performs a ritual ceremony to sanctify the signs at each of the guesthouses at her Ban Ruan Thai Kalae. Thus, hand fasted relationships could be broken as they were not sanctified by Holy Church, a nasty invidious Norman custom that was just coming in. Building a family through a marriage sanctified by a religious ceremony is considered one of the most sacred aspects of life. For good measure, it has been built to vaastu specifications and, before its departure, was sanctified by Judev at a special ceremony where 101 coconuts were broken and a goat sacrificed! Bait Hillel states that first you bless the wine then sanctify the Shabbat. They turned to Dutch religious rituals to sanctify their marriages and to validate their babies as Christians to enhance their chances for emancipation. Last Monday at 11 a.m., 9 monks led religious ceremonies to sanctify the occasion and create solidarity among the 1,500 plus local government employees. Despite the doomsday rhetoric, I have yet to see a single example of how a particular class of citizens sanctifying their union via marriage will wreck that institution. Synonyms approve, sanction, give the stamp of approval to, underwrite, condone, justify, vindicate, endorse, support, back, ratify, confirm, warrant, permit, allow, accredit, authorize, legitimize, legitimatize 1.2 Free from sin; purify. 免除…的罪恶；使圣洁化，使净化 may God sanctify his soul Example sentencesExamples The church will sanctify your body and soul on Sundays. And while this play deals, like all his work, with the conflict between the poetic soul and materialism, I feel Williams sanctifies the dead Sebastian. The young curate replied that ‘a strong faith in the Incarnation and the Real Presence of Jesus Christ sanctifies all human things [,] not excluding human mirth and beauty’. Jesus Christ returns to his followers and breathes on them the power of forgiving love, thus restoring and re-commissioning them for the work of healing and sanctifying the world - a new creation. That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word. Synonyms purify, cleanse, free from sin, absolve, unburden, redeem, exculpate, wash someone's sins away rare lustrate 1.3 Cause to be or seem morally right or acceptable. ancient customs that are sanctified by tradition Example sentencesExamples On the one hand, Michelangelo sought to restore the devotional image, strengthening its hold on a new cut of viewer; on the other, he aimed to sanctify the modern aesthetic, linking Renaissance techniques back into archaic types. At home, womanhood was idealized and sanctified, while women themselves were denied such basic rights of citizenship as the vote. As a joke, it succeeds marvelously, taking square aim at the government that borrows from the perceived grandeur of the British colonial era to sanctify the art made by its own citizens. Those terms were settled, and indeed sanctified, in the long struggle down the centuries to the founding and then to the preservation, the protection and the defence of our liberal representative democracy. By model and practice, families nested children in webs of relationships, sanctified through kin or kin-like (idiomatic kin) moralities. Derivatives sanctification noun saŋ(k)tɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)nˌsæŋ(k)təfəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n The pilgrimage of sanctification after the moment of justification is an avenue by which bonds frayed by rejection of one tradition in favor of another can be healed. Example sentencesExamples In the process she achieves a kind of sanctification and transcendence through martyrdom. It is well known that the great Pope Gregory deliberately charged his missionaries to graft the new on to the old by purifying pagan rites and the sanctification of existing customs. It is a day of sanctification and holiness, and pre-empts all other holy days, and it is a memorial of the creation of the world and of the exodus from Egypt, as well as a memorial to the pact between God and the Hebrews, the covenant. Arrogating universality to itself, the authoritarian state which arose over these exclusive particulars thwarted the self-activity of its people, and concealed the source of its authority behind a veil of religious sanctification. sanctifier noun ˈsaŋ(k)tɪfʌɪəˈsæŋ(k)təˌfaɪ(ə)r May they joyfully complete their mission as guides, teachers and sanctifiers awaiting your glorious coming. Example sentencesExamples There is no sense in this passage, however, that either spouse replaces Christ as savior / sanctifier; the implication seems rather that he or she will serve as a witness to Christ. The creed does state the basic Christian convictions concerning the Triune God as creator, savior, and sanctifier, and the basic Christian story from Creation, through Incarnation, to the world to come. Our one God is a Sanctifier. The Spirit is a washer, a justifier, a sanctifier. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French saintifier (influenced later by sanctifier), from ecclesiastical Latin sanctificare, from Latin sanctus 'holy'. saint from Middle English: Saint comes via Old French, from Latin sanctus ‘holy’. The word has been used in the names of many diseases such as St Vitus' dance (early 17th century) with the supposition that the associated saint would ward off the illness. Also based on sanctus are sanctify (Late Middle English), sanctity (Late Middle English), sanctimonious (early 17th century) originally meaning ‘holy in character’, and sanctuary (Middle English) originally a holy place where you were safe from attack or arrest. A sanction (Late Middle English) was originally an ecclesiastical decree and comes from Latin sancere which meant both ‘to make holy’ and ‘to decree’. Definition of sanctify in US English: sanctify verbˈsaNG(k)təˌfīˈsæŋ(k)təˌfaɪ [with object] 1Set apart as or declare holy; consecrate. 使神圣化；使神圣不可侵犯 a small shrine was built to sanctify the site 修建了一个小小的基督教圣坛以使该处成为圣地。 Example sentencesExamples As the promising young Christian leader in his rural South African village, James is dispatched on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, an experience intended to sanctify his succession as the next pastor. Formal Victorian monuments are no longer enough, it seems, to evoke memory and sanctify the sacred. The use of Catholic ritual to sanctify the Revolution parallels the crucial role that the Church played in the events of 1789 and 1790. Rituals by the Converted temporarily sanctify specific locations - a house, the market square, a crossroads, a beach - for services they hold there. It's an awesome place and the Celts associated it with their Goddess of Waters, Sul, sanctifying it into a shrine. Yet cattle, the possession sacrificed by male elders to sanctify rituals of ukuzila, were dying off. This historic church has been sanctified by the prayers and praises of countless thousands who have worshipped within its walls. It was for the solemn task of protecting and sanctifying the ducal resting place that Philip chose the most austere of the religious orders. Earlier in the day, he said the Dalai Lama was scheduled to sanctify a Buddhist temple in Elista, the Kalmyk capital, and that no meetings with Russian officials were planned. To some extent the earth sanctified by the priest may be regarded as a Christian item. They sanctified the Holy Days and consecrated the marriage vows. Synonyms consecrate, make holy, make sacred, bless, hallow, set apart, dedicate to god, anoint, ordain, canonize, beatify 1.1 Make legitimate or binding by religious sanction. 经教会批准而使合法化，使具有约束力 they see their love sanctified by the sacrament of marriage 他们认为他们的爱情得到了神圣婚姻的认可。 Example sentencesExamples They turned to Dutch religious rituals to sanctify their marriages and to validate their babies as Christians to enhance their chances for emancipation. Larger Orthodox churches are often constructed in a cross in-square configuration, and all contain an icon screen separating the sanctuary where communion bread and wine are sanctified from the rest of the building. For good measure, it has been built to vaastu specifications and, before its departure, was sanctified by Judev at a special ceremony where 101 coconuts were broken and a goat sacrificed! Newborns are sanctified by prayer and undergo head-shaving and naming ceremonies. Legal institutions brought over from England at the founding of the colonies defined all these dependent relationships (except slavery) and powerful religious traditions sanctified them. And insofar as it's sanctified by a religious ceremony, that's up to the churches involved. Mother Theresa, to be sanctified next spring, once said that she sometimes prayed for 24 hours. Bait Hillel states that first you bless the wine then sanctify the Shabbat. Last Monday at 11 a.m., 9 monks led religious ceremonies to sanctify the occasion and create solidarity among the 1,500 plus local government employees. Nine monks performed a ritual ceremony to sanctify the shrine, and blessed the local residents and the surrounding area. This ‘religious’ object is now sanctified daily by priests with poojas. The grave was then dug, if this had not already been done, and sanctified by a priest with holy water and incense. It was sanctified in the public sphere by religion as well as by the power of kinship. An assembly of 90 monks conducted Buddhist ritual chants and prayers sanctifying the ceremony. A revered monk performs a ritual ceremony to sanctify the signs at each of the guesthouses at her Ban Ruan Thai Kalae. Thus, hand fasted relationships could be broken as they were not sanctified by Holy Church, a nasty invidious Norman custom that was just coming in. Building a family through a marriage sanctified by a religious ceremony is considered one of the most sacred aspects of life. Starting at 9 a.m. on Friday May 11, nine monks performed a religious ceremony to sanctify the new branch office. They sanctified the ground and declared that should whites attempt to attack the Red Sticks here, their bullets would fall harmlessly to the ground. Despite the doomsday rhetoric, I have yet to see a single example of how a particular class of citizens sanctifying their union via marriage will wreck that institution. Synonyms approve, sanction, give the stamp of approval to, underwrite, condone, justify, vindicate, endorse, support, back, ratify, confirm, warrant, permit, allow, accredit, authorize, legitimize, legitimatize 1.2 Free from sin; purify. 免除…的罪恶；使圣洁化，使净化 Example sentencesExamples That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word. Jesus Christ returns to his followers and breathes on them the power of forgiving love, thus restoring and re-commissioning them for the work of healing and sanctifying the world - a new creation. The church will sanctify your body and soul on Sundays. And while this play deals, like all his work, with the conflict between the poetic soul and materialism, I feel Williams sanctifies the dead Sebastian. The young curate replied that ‘a strong faith in the Incarnation and the Real Presence of Jesus Christ sanctifies all human things [,] not excluding human mirth and beauty’. Synonyms purify, cleanse, free from sin, absolve, unburden, redeem, exculpate, wash someone's sins away 1.3 Cause to be or seem morally right or acceptable. ancient customs that are sanctified by tradition Example sentencesExamples By model and practice, families nested children in webs of relationships, sanctified through kin or kin-like (idiomatic kin) moralities. Those terms were settled, and indeed sanctified, in the long struggle down the centuries to the founding and then to the preservation, the protection and the defence of our liberal representative democracy. As a joke, it succeeds marvelously, taking square aim at the government that borrows from the perceived grandeur of the British colonial era to sanctify the art made by its own citizens. On the one hand, Michelangelo sought to restore the devotional image, strengthening its hold on a new cut of viewer; on the other, he aimed to sanctify the modern aesthetic, linking Renaissance techniques back into archaic types. At home, womanhood was idealized and sanctified, while women themselves were denied such basic rights of citizenship as the vote. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French saintifier (influenced later by sanctifier), from ecclesiastical Latin sanctificare, from Latin sanctus ‘holy’.
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