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What does sanctify mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word sanctify? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To make holy; to consecrate. Set aside for sacred or ceremonial use.
  2. (transitive) To free from sin; to purify.
  3. (transitive) To make acceptable or useful under religious law or practice.
  4. (transitive) To endorse with religious sanction.
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Starting at 9 a.m. on Friday May 11, nine monks performed a religious ceremony to sanctify the new branch office.
Formal Victorian monuments are no longer enough, it seems, to evoke memory and sanctify the sacred.
He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the layer and its base, to sanctify them.
These could now elucubrate an ideology to sanctify and legitimize the authority of the new kings.
A revered monk performs a ritual ceremony to sanctify the signs at each of the guesthouses at her Ban Ruan Thai Kalae.
Yet cattle, the possession sacrificed by male elders to sanctify rituals of ukuzila, were dying off.

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