All sanctify synonyms

verb sanctify

• honour — to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents.
• franchised — Simple past tense and past participle of franchise.
• dedicate — If you say that someone has dedicated themselves to something, you approve of the fact that they have decided to give a lot of time and effort to it because they think that it is important.
• edulcorate — to free from acids, salts, or impurities by washing; purify.
• franchising — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
• deterge — to wash or wipe away; cleanse
• embrocate — (medicine, transitive) To moisten and rub (a diseased part) with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc., by means of a cloth or sponge.
• lustrate — to purify by a propitiatory offering or other ceremonial method.
• formalise — to make formal, especially for the sake of official or authorized acceptance: to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.
• glorify — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
• honor — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
• consecrate — When a building, place, or object is consecrated, it is officially declared to be holy. When a person is consecrated, they are officially declared to be a bishop.
• humouring — humor.
• humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
• look to — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
• christen — When a baby is christened, he or she is given a name during the Christian ceremony of baptism. Compare baptize.
• beatify — When the Catholic church beatifies someone who is dead, it declares officially that they were a holy person, usually as the first step towards making them a saint.
• worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
• devote — If you devote yourself, your time, or your energy to something, you spend all or most of your time or energy on it.
• look up to — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• formalize — to make formal, especially for the sake of official or authorized acceptance: to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.
• canonise — Ecclesiastical. to place in the canon of saints.
• canonize — If a dead person is canonized, it is officially announced by the Catholic Church that he or she is a saint.
• memorialise — (British) alternative spelling of memorialize.
• enshrine — Place (a revered or precious object) in an appropriate receptacle.
• ok — all right; proceeding normally; satisfactory or under control: Things are OK at the moment.
• hallow — to make holy; sanctify; consecrate.
• humored — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
• depurate — to cleanse or purify or to be cleansed or purified
• aerified — to aerate.
• bless — When someone such as a priest blesses people or things, he asks for God's favour and protection for them.
• aerify — to change or cause to change into a gas
• live up to — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
• anoint — To anoint someone means to put oil or water on a part of their body, usually for religious reasons.
• haloed — Also called nimbus. a geometric shape, usually in the form of a disk, circle, ring, or rayed structure, traditionally representing a radiant light around or above the head of a divine or sacred personage, an ancient or medieval monarch, etc.
• memorialize — to commemorate.
• haloing — Also called nimbus. a geometric shape, usually in the form of a disk, circle, ring, or rayed structure, traditionally representing a radiant light around or above the head of a divine or sacred personage, an ancient or medieval monarch, etc.
• elutriate — Separate (lighter and heavier particles in a mixture) by suspension in an upward flow of liquid or gas.