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

• Thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and shalt sanctify them, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me.
  你也要给亚郎和他的儿子们傅油，祝圣他们作我的司祭。
• 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 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。
• Gather the people; sanctify the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children and those who suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride from her canopy.
  聚集众民，使会众分别为圣；招聚老者，聚集孩童和吃奶的；使新郎出离洞房，新妇出离内室。
• The holy element is moving and active within us to sanctify us.
  圣别的元素一直在我们里面运行，活动，使我们得以圣别。
• And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
  我为他们的缘故，自己分别为圣，叫他们也因真理成圣。
• 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。
• For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh.
  假如公山羊和牛犊的血，以及母牛的灰烬，洒在那些受玷污的人身上，可净化他们得到肉身的洁净。
• 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。