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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sanctify
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ These arbitrary customs have been sanctified over a long time.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ From the mountains, from the plains, from far-off villages, they came to be sanctified by seeing or touching him.
▪ The bishops expected the hallowed Authorized Version to maintain its mastery because it was sanctified in everyone's affections and moral sentiments.
▪ The rest continued the praying through, welcoming the newly sanctified with laughter and hugs.
▪ We sanctify ourselves through literate participation in collective reverence for our past.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sanctify

Sanctify \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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sanctify

late 14c., seintefie "to consecrate," from Old French saintefier "sanctify" (12c., \nModern French sanctifier), from Late Latin sanctificare "to make holy," from sanctus "holy" (see saint (n.)) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Form altered in English c.1400 to conform with Latin. Meaning "to render holy or legitimate by religious sanction" is from c.1400; transferred sense of "to render worthy of respect" is from c.1600. Related: Sanctified; sanctifying.

Wiktionary
sanctify

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make holy; to consecrate. Set aside for sacred or ceremonial use. 2 (context transitive English) To free from sin; to purify. 3 (context transitive English) To make acceptable or useful under religious law or practice. 4 (context transitive English) To endorse with religious sanction.

WordNet
sanctify

  1. v. 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]

  3. [also: sanctified]

Usage examples of "sanctify".

And therefore in the baptismal form that action alone is expressed which refers to the man to be sanctified.

He might bequeath the sanctified waters to those who were to be baptized afterwards.

For which reason, when Christ was baptized, heaven was opened, to show that in future the heavenly power would sanctify baptism.

Further, if anyone be baptized in the sea, the entire sea-water is not sanctified by the form of baptism, but only the water wherewith the body of the baptized is cleansed.

The surface of the basho has been purified and sanctified by salt by the visiting priests.

Therefore it was not befitting that either Jeremias or John the Baptist should be sanctified in the womb.

He bestows such a grace on one and not on another, yet there seems to be a certain fittingness in both of these being sanctified in the womb, by their foreshadowing the sanctification which was to be effected through Christ.

For some have held that the fomes was entirely taken away in that sanctification whereby the Blessed Virgin was sanctified in the womb.

They have sanctified part of the gompa as a chapel to their triune God.

It was the 1st of April, a Sunday, Easter Day, which Harding and his companions sanctified by rest and prayer.

From all sides the roving Arabs were allured to the standard of religion and plunder: the apostle sanctified the license of embracing the female captives as their wives or concubines, and the enjoyment of wealth and beauty was a feeble type of the joys of paradise prepared for the valiant martyrs of the faith.

After Jai finished his speech, High Judge Calope Muze officiated at the betrothal, sanctifying it for their wedding, which would take place in three months.

As sanctifying grace is ordained to meritorious acts both interior and exterior, so likewise gratuitous grace is ordained to certain exterior acts manifestive of the faith, as the working of miracles, and the like.

For it acquired then the actual holiness of a victim, from the charity which it had from the beginning, and from the grace of union sanctifying it absolutely.

Consequently, in the first instant of His conception, Christ had the fulness of grace sanctifying His body and His soul.