sanctify

英 [ˈsæŋktɪfaɪ]

美 [ˈsæŋktɪfaɪ]

v.  使神圣化; 使正当化; 使合法化; 批准; 认可

过去式：sanctified　过去分词：sanctified　现在分词：sanctifying　第三人称单数：sanctifies　

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BNC.21181 / COCA.20602

牛津词典

verb

• 使神圣化
  to make sth holy
• 使正当化；使合法化；批准；认可
  to make sth seem right or legal; to give official approval to sth
  1. This was a practice sanctified by tradition.
     这是一种合乎传统的做法。

柯林斯词典

• VERB (牧师、神职人员)认可，批准，使神圣化
  If somethingis sanctifiedby a priest or other holy person, the priest or holy person officially approves of it, or declares it to be holy.
  1. She is trying to make amends for her marriage not being sanctified.
     她正努力弥补自己那段未受牧师认可的婚姻。
• VERB 批准;认可;使受尊敬;使固定不变
  If an organization or eventsanctifiessomething, it makes it approved of and respected, or unable to be changed.
  1. ...a law that sanctifies changes that have already occurred.
     认可已发生变化的一项法律

英英释义

verb

• make pure or free from sin or guilt
  1. he left the monastery purified
  Synonym:purifypurge
• render holy by means of religious rites
  Synonym:consecrateblesshallow

双语例句

• But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
  但他看见他的众子，就是我手的工作，在他那里，他们必尊我的名为圣，必尊雅各的圣者为圣，必敬畏以色列的神。
• She is trying to make amends for her marriage not being sanctified.
  她正努力弥补自己那段未受牧师认可的婚姻。
• God desires to sanctify us wholly and to preserve our spirit, soul, and body complete.
  神渴望全然圣别我们，并保守我们的灵、与魂、与身子得以完全。
• St. Francis wanted to sanctify poverty, not to abolish it.
  圣弗朗西斯想圣化贫困而不是消除它。
• And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
  我的圣所在以色列人中间直到永远，外邦人就必知道我是叫以色列成为圣的耶和华。
• To make holy by religious rite; sanctify.
  用宗教仪式使神圣化；使神圣。收藏。
• Thus you shall sanctify them that they may be most holy; whatever touches them shall be holy.
  29你要这样使这些分别为圣，好成为至圣；凡触着这些的都成为圣。
• The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean.
  若山羊和公牛的血，并母牛犊的灰洒在不洁的人身上，尚且叫人成圣，身体洁净。
• And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day.
  我吩咐利未人洁净自己，来守城门，使安息日为圣。
• And the Lord was willing to sanctify him, and to magnify the law, and exalt it.
  上主为了自己的仁义，本来愿意把法律发扬广大。