purify, purge, sanctify
(verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt; “he left the monastery purified”
consecrate, bless, hallow, sanctify
(verb) render holy by means of religious rites
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sanctify (third-person singular simple present sanctifies, present participle sanctifying, simple past and past participle sanctified)
(transitive) To make holy; to consecrate; to set aside for sacred or ceremonial use.
(transitive) To free from sin; to purify.
(transitive) To make acceptable or useful under religious law or practice.
(transitive) To endorse with religious sanction.
• (to make holy): consecrate, hallow; see also consecrate
• (to free from sin): cleanse, purify
• * (to make holy): profane; see also desecrate
Source: Wiktionary
Sanc"ti*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sanctified; p. pr. & vb. n. Sanctifying.] Etym: [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 garnment. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 April 2025
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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