单词 | resanctify |
释义 | resanctifyv. transitive. To sanctify again, to restore to holiness. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > consecration > reconsecration > perform reconsecration [verb (transitive)] reconsecrate1611 rededicate1611 rehallow1632 resanctify1634 1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.7) i. 405 This abused frame was happly washed by the cleare streames of the Gospell, and resanctified by the Word and prayer. 1675 A. Woodhead et al. Paraphr. St. Paul 82 All things..unclean before God, if they are not resanctified in Christ. 1851 Eclectic Rev. Dec. 658 They got their boat ‘blessed’ by the priest, and re-sanctified with holy water, in order to remove the heretical defilement. 1861 H. Bushnell Christian Nurture i. viii. 208 He will reclaim and re-sanctify the great principle of reproductive order. 1936 Hesperia 5 243 In Roman times the same sanctuary was still in use, and the same religious society republished and resanctified its constitution. 1990 G. Snyder Pract. of Wild iii. 52 The puritanized South Indian conservatives feared the erotic component, which Bala defended, purified, and resanctified. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1634 |
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