2. The act of consecrating, or of setting apart for a sacred purpose;
consecration. Bp. Burnet.
Sanc"ti*fied (?), a. Made holy; also, made to have the air of sanctity;
sanctimonious.
Sanc"ti*fi`er (?), n. One who sanctifies, or makes holy; specifically,
the Holy Spirit.
Sanc"ti*fy (?), v. t. [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.
Sanc"ti*fy`ing*ly (?), adv. In a manner or degree tending to sanctify
or make holy.
Sanc*til"o*quent (?), a. [L. sanctus holy + loquens, p. pr. of loqui to
speak.] Discoursing on heavenly or holy things, or in a holy manner.
Sanc`ti*mo"ni*al (?), a. [Cf. LL. sanctimonialis. ] Sanctimonious.
[Obs.]
Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous (?), a. [See Sanctimony.] 1. Possessing sanctimony;
holy; sacred; saintly. Shak.
2. Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically
devout or pious. "Like the sanctimonious pirate." Shak.
-- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ness, n.
Sanc"ti*mo*ny (?), n. [L. sanctimonia, fr. sanctus holy: cf. OF.
sanctimonie. See Saint.] Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity;
sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or
pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness.
Her pretense is a pilgrimage; . . . which holy undertaking with
most austere sanctimony she accomplished.
Shak.
Sanc"tion (?), n. [L. sanctio, from sancire, sanctum to render sacred
or inviolable, to fix unalterably: cf. F. sanction. See Saint.] 1.
Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by
which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or
body; establishment or furtherance of anything by giving authority to
it; confirmation; approbation.
The strictest professors of reason have added the sanction of their
testimony.