Crossword clues for sainted
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saint \Saint\ (s[=a]nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sainted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sainting.] To make a saint of; to enroll among the saints by an offical act, as of the pope; to canonize; to give the title or reputation of a saint to (some one).
A large hospital, erected by a shoemaker who has been
beatified, though never sainted.
--Addison.
To saint it, to act as a saint, or with a show of piety.
Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it.
--Pope.
Sainted \Saint"ed\, a.
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Consecrated; sacred; holy; pious. ``A most sainted king.''
--Shak.Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats.
--Milton. Entered into heaven; -- a euphemism for dead.
Wiktionary
1 Of or pertaining to a saint; saint-like, reverenced. 2 (non-gloss definition: Used to mark a beloved person mentioned in conversation as being deceased). v
(en-past of: saint)
WordNet
Usage examples of "sainted".
Besides, I was much surprised at the liberty enjoyed by those sainted virgins, and at the facility with which they could escape out of their walls.
I then related to her the adventure of the spy, and we both thought that it was most likely the means taken by the sainted woman to gratify her curiosity about me.
And I was still speculating as to what tureen of soup she was planning to land the sainted Pinker in and hoping that he would have enough sense to stay out of it, when Jeeves drove up in the car, a welcome sight.
And should a fervid faith incline To make thereof a sainted shrine, Who may deny that round us throng A hundred earthly creeds as wrong, But meaner far, which yet unblamed Stalk by us and are not ashamed?
He wears, as you perceive, the vernicle of Sainted Luke, the first physician, upon his sleeve.
Happily, the sainted Bishop Ambrose had the foresight to weight that synod with other Athanasian bishops.
God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.
Besides, I was much surprised at the liberty enjoyed by those sainted virgins, and at the facility with which they could escape out of their walls.
At about this same time too, frogs reappeared in the irrigation ditches, and folks once more heard them singing at night, obviously because the old sheepherder had become so busy stitching miniature clodhoppers for the Sainted Child and otherwise trying to bring back Pendejo that he no longer had time for his nocturnal canine patrol of the waterways.
Abbe Grimani was, however, a kind Jesuit, and those sainted servants of God think that all is well that ends well and profitably to themselves.
This, however, I know, that my wife is come of a very sainted race, whom God hath in His wisdom endowed with wondrous powers, so that Tiphaine Raquenel was known throughout Brittany ere ever I first saw her at Dinan.
Catherine of the same size, and a clever Venetian jeweller made the ring, the bezel of which shewed only the sainted virgin.
It was as if the splendours Suzanna had first seen on Lord Street, the haloes that sainted Human and Seerkind alike, had somehow been drawn inside them, for the skin of their limbs and faces was swollen and raw, bubbles of darkness scurrying around their anatomies like rats under sheets.
The good fray practices the dictates of the founder of his Dominican order, the sainted Dominic, the first inquisitor, who advised that when dealing with blasphemers and heretics, we must fight the devil with fire and told his followers that "when kind words fail, blows may avail.