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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• And do not bring burdens out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work: sanctify the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
  不要做任何工作，却要按照我曾给你们祖先所吩咐的，圣化安息日。
• St Francis wanted to sanctify poverty, not to abolish it.
  圣芳济不是要废除贫穷，而是要使之神圣化。
• 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。
• 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。
• Jn. 17:19 And for their sake I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
  约十七19我为他们的缘故，圣别自己，使他们也在真理中得以圣别。
• 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。