SANCTIFICATE
SANC'TIFICATE, verb transitive To sanctify. [Not in use.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SANCTIFICATION
SANCTIFICA'TION, noun [See Sanctify.]1. The act of making holy. In an evangelical sense, the act of God's grace by which the affections of men are purified or alienated from sin...
SANCTIFIED
SANC'TIFIED, participle passive1. Made holy; consecrated; set apart for sacred services.2. Affectedly holy.
SANCTIFIER
SANC'TIFIER, noun He that sanctifies or makes holy. In theology, the Holy Spirit is, by way of eminence, denominated the sanctifier
SANCTIFY
SANC'TIFY, verb transitive [Low Latin sanctifico; from sanctus, holy, and facio, to make.]1. In a general sense, to cleanse, purify or make holy.2. To separate, set apart or app...
SANCTIFYING
SANC'TIFYING, participle present tense1. Making holy; purifying from the defilements of sin; separating to a holy use.2.adjective Tending to sanctify; adapted to increase holiness.
SANCTIMONIOUS
SANCTIMO'NIOUS, adjective [Latin sanctimonia, from sanctus, holy.]Saintly; having the appearance of sanctity; as a sanctimonious pretense.
SANCTIMONIOUSLY
SANCTIMO'NIOUSLY, adverb With sanctimony.
SANCTIMONIOUSNESS
SANCTIMO'NIOUSNESS, noun State of being sanctimonious; sanctity, or the appearance of it. [little used.]
SANCTIMONY
SANC'TIMONY, noun [Latin sanctimonia.] Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity, or the appearance of it. [Little used.]
SANCTION
SANC'TION, noun [Latin sanctio, from sanctus, holy, solemn, established.]1. Ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of som...
SANCTIONED
SANC'TIONED, participle passive Ratified; confirmed; authorized.
SANCTIONING
SANC'TIONING, participle present tense Ratifying; authorizing.
SANCTITUDE
SANC'TITUDE, noun [Latin sanctus, sanctitudo.] Holiness; sacredness.
SANCTITY
SANC'TITY, noun [Latin sanctitas.]1. Holiness; state of being sacred or holy. God attributes no sanctity to place.2. Goodness; purity; godliness; as the sanctity of love; sancti...
SANCTUARIZE
SANC'TUARIZE, verb transitive [from sanctuary.] To shelter by means of a sanctuary or sacred privileges. [A bad word and not used.]
SANCTUARY
SANC'TUARY, noun [Latin sanctuarium, from sanctus, sacred.]1. A sacred place; particularly among the Israelites, the most retired part of the temple at Jerusalem, called the Hol...
SAND
SAND, noun1. Any mass or collection of fine particles of stone, particularly of fine particles of silicious stone, but not strictly reduced to powder or dust.That finer matter c...
SANDAL
SAN'DAL, noun [Latin sandalium; Gr.]1. A kind of shoe, consisting of a sole fastened to the foot. The Greek and Roman ladies wore sandals made of a rich stuff, ornamented with g...
SANDAL-WOOD
SAN'DAL-WOOD,SAN'DARAC,SAN'DARACH, noun [Latin sandaraca.]1. A resin in white tears, more transparent than those of mastic; obtained from the juniper tree, in which it occupies ...
SANDARACH
SAN'DARACH, n. [L. sandaraca.]1. A resin in white tears, more transparent than those of mastic; obtained from the juniper tree, in which it occupies the place between the bark a...
SANDED
SAND'ED, participle passive1. Sprinkled with sand; as a sanded floor.2.adjective Covered with sand; barren.3. Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sand...
SANDERLING
SAND'ERLING, noun A bird of the plover kind.SANDERS. [See Sandal.]
SANDERS
SAN'DERS, nounA kind of wood which grows in the East Indies and on some of the isles of the Pacific. It is of three kinds, the white, the yellow, and the red. The tree which pro...
SANDEVER
SAN'DEVER,SAND'INESS, noun [from sandy.]1. The state of being sandy; as the sandiness of a road.2. The state of being of a sandy color.
SANDINESS
SAND'INESS, n. [from sandy.]1. The state of being sandy; as the sandiness of a road.2. The state of being of a sandy color.
SANDISH
SAND'ISH, adjective [from sand.] Approaching the nature of sand; loose; not compact.