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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Tartuffian, Tartuffish, affected, aggrandized, apotheosized, awesome, beatified, big, blessed, canonized, canting, consecrated, converted, dedicated, deified, devoted, elevated, eminent, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, exalted, excellent, false, glorified, goody, goody-goody, grand, great, hallowed, held in awe, high, high and mighty, holier-than-thou, hypocritical, immortal, immortalized, insincere, lofty, magnified, mealymouthed, mighty, pharisaic, pietistic, pious, reborn, redeemed, regenerate, regenerated, sacred, sainted, saintly, sanctimonious, saved, self-righteous, set apart, shrined, sniveling, sublime, supereminent, throned, unctuous
Dictionary Results for sanctified:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
sanctified
    adj 1: made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a
           deity or some religious ceremony or use; "a consecrated
           church"; "the sacred mosque"; "sacred elephants"; "sacred
           bread and wine"; "sanctified wine" [syn: consecrated,
           sacred, sanctified]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sanctified \Sanc"ti*fied\, a.
   Made holy; also, made to have the air of sanctity;
   sanctimonious.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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            God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.
                                                  --Gen. ii. 3.
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            Moses . . . sanctified Aaron and his garments.
                                                  --Lev. viii.
                                                  30.
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   2. To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption
      and pollution; to purify.
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            Sanctify them through thy truth.      --John xvii.
                                                  17.
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   3. To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render
      productive of holiness or piety.
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            A means which his mercy hath sanctified so to me as
            to make me repent of that unjust act. --Eikon
                                                  Basilike.
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   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.
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            The holy man, amazed at what he saw,
            Made haste to sanctify the bliss by law. --Dryden.
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            Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line. --Pope.
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