Sanctify /(?)/

Sanc·ti·fy

Sanctify

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Sanctified; p. pr. & vb. n. Sanctifying

  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.
    Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line.