Sanctify

Definition of Sanctify

Sanc´ti`fy

v. t.	1.	To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow. [imp. & p. p. Sanctified ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sanctifying .] 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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