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Sanctified

Sanctified \Sanc"ti*fied\, a. Made holy; also, made to have the air of sanctity; sanctimonious.

Sanctified

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.

Wiktionary
sanctified
  1. Made holy. Set aside for sacred or ceremonial use. v

  2. (past participle of sanctify English)

WordNet
sanctified

adj. made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use; "a consecrated chursh"; "the sacred mosque"; "sacred elephants"; "sacred bread and wine"; "sanctified wine" [syn: consecrated, sacred]

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]

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Wikipedia
Sanctified (album)

Sanctified is the fourth album for Swedish heavy metal band Morgana Lefay.

Sanctified

Sanctified may refer to:

  • Sanctification - "making holy"
Sanctified (song)

"Sanctified" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Rick Ross, taken from his sixth studio album Mastermind (2014). The song, produced by Kanye West, Mike Dean, and DJ Mustard, featuring guest appearances by rappers Kanye West and Big Sean. It was written by the aforementioned rappers and producers and Betty Wright sang the hook. "Sanctified" garnered critical acclaim from music critics, with most praising the production and Kanye West's appearance. Despite not being released as a single, it is the highest charting song on Mastermind to date, debuting at number 25 on the UK R&B Chart, number 78 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 99 on the Canadian Hot 100 upon the album's release.

Usage examples of "sanctified".

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.

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.

Thy servants as have detached themselves from everything but Thee, have sanctified themselves from the transitory things of this world, and have freed themselves from the promptings of the voicers of idle fancies.

Burke guessed it was Picasso who had first said it, but wished it might have been someone else, someone who had not gone so far off the deep end and spent his last yean laughing at the idiots who sanctified every piece of silliness he chose to label with his name.

In the meantime, they have abolished the Exalted privilege sanctified by centuries, declared an impossible equality that defies nature, outraged law and custom and decency, and doubtless rendered Vonahr contemptible in the eyes of all nations.

Reverend Penton Adams of the Church of Sanctified Apostles was a hellfire-and-brimstone preacher.

Therefore also the Blessed Virgin was not sanctified until after all in her was perfected, viz.