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
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- This was a practice sanctified by tradition.
这是一种合乎传统的做法。
- This was a practice sanctified by tradition.
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.- 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。
- She is trying to make amends for her marriage not being sanctified.
- 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.- ...a law that sanctifies changes that have already occurred.
认可已发生变化的一项法律
- ...a law that sanctifies changes that have already occurred.
英英释义
verb
- make pure or free from sin or guilt
- he left the monastery purified
- render holy by means of religious rites
双语例句
- Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
但要尊万军之耶和华为圣。以他为你们所当怕的，所当畏惧的。 - And you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and sanctify it and all its utensils; and it shall be holy.
要拿膏油来，抹帐幕和其中所有的，使帐幕和一切器具分别为圣；帐幕就成为圣。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - And said unto them, hear me, ye levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the Holy place.
对他们说，利未人哪，当听我说，现在你们要洁净自己，又洁净耶和华你们列祖神的殿，从圣所中除去污秽之物。 - 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。