Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SAM'SON'S-POST, n.

In ships, a notched post used instead of a ladder; also, a piece of timber that forms a return for a tackle-fall. – Mar. Dict.

SAN-A-BIL'I-TY, or SAN'A-BLE-NESS, n.

State of being curable.

SAN'A-BLE, a. [L. sanabilis, from sano, to heal; sanus, sound. See Sound.]

That may be healed or cured; susceptible of remedy. – More.

SAN'A-TA-RY, a.

1. Healing.
2. Tending or adapted to guard public health.

SAN-A'TION, n. [L. sanatio, from sano, to heal.]

The act of healing or curing. [Not used.] – Wiseman.

SAN'A-TIVE, a. [L. sano, to heal.]

Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal. – Bacon.

SAN'A-TIVE-NESS, n.

The power of healing.

SANC'TIF-I-CATE, v.t.

To sanctify. [Not in use.] – Barrow.

SANC-TIF-IC-A'TION, n. [Fr. from Low L. sanctificatio, from sanctifico. See Sanctify.]

1. The act of making holy. In an evangelical sense, the act of God's grace by which the affections of men are purified or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to a supreme love to God. God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. – 2 Thess. ii. 1 Pet. i.
2. The act of consecrating or of setting apart for a sacred purpose; consecration. – Stillingfleet.

SANC'TI-FI-ED, pp.

1. Made holy; consecrated; set apart for sacred services.
2. Affectedly holy. – Hume.

SANC'TI-FI-ER, n.

He that sanctifies or makes holy. In theology, the Holy Spirit is, by way of eminence, denominated the Sanctifier.

SANC'TI-FY, v.t. [Fr. sanctifier; It. santificare; Sp. santificar; Low L. sanctifico; from sanctus, holy, and facio, to make.]

1. In a general sense, to cleanse, purify or make holy. Addison.
2. To separate, set apart or appoint to a holy, sacred or religious use. God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. Gen. ii. So under the Jewish dispensation, to sanctify the altar, the temple, the priests, &c.
3. To purify, to prepare for divine service, and for partaking of holy things. Exod. xix.
4. To separate, ordain and appoint to the work of redemption and the government of the church. John x.
5. To cleanse from corruption; to purify from sin; to make holy by detaching the affections from the world and its defilements, and exalting them to a supreme love to God. Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth. – John xvii. Eph. v.
6. To make the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety. Those judgments of God are the more welcome, as a means which his mercy hath sanctified so to me, as to make me repent of that unjust act. – K. Charles.
7. To make free from guilt. That holy man, amaz'd at what he saw, / Made haste to sanctify the bliss by law. – Dryden.
8. To secure from violation. Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line. – Pope. To sanctify God, to praise and celebrate him as a holy being; to acknowledge and honor his holy majesty, and to reverence his character and laws. – Isa. viii. God sanctifies himself or his name, by vindicating his honor from the reproaches of the wicked, and manifesting his glory. – Ezek. xxxvi.

SANC'TI-FY-ING, ppr.

1. Making holy; purifying from the defilements of sin; separating to a holy use.
2. adj. Tending to sanctify; adapted to increase holiness.

SANC'TI-FY-ING-LY, adv.

In a manner or degree tending to sanctify or make holy.

SANC-TIL'O-QUENT, a.

Discoursing on heavenly things.

SANC-TI-MO'NI-OUS, a. [L. sanctimonia, from sanctus, holy.]

Saintly; having the appearance of sanctity; as, a sanctimonious pretense. – L'Estrange.

SANC-TI-MO'NI-OUS-LY, adv.

With sanctimony.

SANC-TI-MO'NI-OUS-NESS, n.

State of being sanctimonious; sanctity, or the appearance of it; devoutness.

SANC'TI-MO-NY, n. [L. sanctimonia.]

Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity, or the appearance of it. [Little used.] – Shak. Ralegh.

SANC'TION, n. [Fr. from L. sanctio, from sanctus, holy, solemn, established.]

1. Ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body. A treaty is not valid without the sanction of the president and senate.
2. Authority; confirmation derived from testimony, character, influence or custom. The strictest professors of reason have added the sanction of their testimony. – Watts.
3. A law or decree. [Improper.] – Denham.

SANC'TION, v.t.

To ratify; to confirm; to give validity or authority to. – Burke.

SANC'TION-ED, pp.

Ratified; confirmed; authorized.

SANC'TION-ING, ppr.

Ratifying; authorizing.

SANC'TI-TUDE, n. [L. sanctus; sanctitudo.]

Holiness; sacredness. – Milton.

SANC'TI-TY, n. [L. sanctitas.]

1. Holiness; state of being sacred or holy. God attributes no sanctity to place. – Milton.
2. Goodness; purity; godliness; as, the sanctity of love; sanctity of manners. – Shak. Addison.
3. Sacredness; solemnity; as, the sanctity of an oath.
4. A saint or holy being. About him all the sanctities of heav'n. [Unusual.] – Milton.