transitive verb. To set apart for sacred use; consecrate.

transitive verb. To make holy; purify.

transitive verb. To give religious sanction to, as with an oath or vow.

transitive verb. To give social or moral sanction to.

To make holy or clean, either ceremonially or morally and spiritually; purify or free from sin.

To consecrate; set apart from a common to a sacred use; hallow or render sacred; invest with a sacred or elevated character: said of things or persons.

To make efficient as a means of holiness; render productive of spiritual blessing.

To make free from guilt; give a religious or a legal sanction to.

To keep pure; render inviolable.

To celebrate or confess as holy.

Synonyms To hallow.

transitive verb. To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.

transitive verb. To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify.

transitive verb. To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety.

transitive verb. To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to.

verb. To make holy; to consecrate. Set aside for sacred or ceremonial use.

verb. To free from sin; to purify.

verb. To make acceptable or useful under religious law or practice.

verb. To endorse with religious sanction.

verb. make pure or free from sin or guilt

verb. render holy by means of religious rites

"The simplest meaning of the word sanctify is to separate or to devote to sacred uses."

sanctification  sanctifier  

apostolic  august  civilised  devout  disarm  

aggrandize  apotheose  apotheosize  beatify  bless  

sanctified  

sanctified  sanctifies  sanctifying