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

• And you shall anoint the laver and its base, and sanctify it.
  要抹洗濯盆和盆座，使盆分别为圣。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
  我必显为大，显为圣，在多国人的眼前显现。他们就知道我是耶和华。
• Jn. 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.
  约十七17求你用真理圣别他们，你的话就是真理。
• Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
  又将我的安息日赐给他们，好在我与他们中间为证据，使他们知道我耶和华是叫他们成为圣的。
• 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。
• Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the Lord do sanctify them.
  免得他们在吃圣物上自取罪孽，因为我是叫他们成圣的耶和华。