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The state or quality of being sacred or holy; holiness; saintliness; moral purity; godliness. To sanctity she made no pretense, and, indeed, narrowly escaped the imputation of irreligion. Macaulay.

of the Mass, and again at the elevation of the host. Called also Mass bell, sacring bell, saints' bell, sance- bell, sancte bell.

A Turkish saint; a kind of dervish, regarded by the people as a saint: also, a hermit.

A saint. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ctrines of election, the inability of man to do good, and the certain perseverance of the saints.

ox, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.

what they represent is as certainly delivered to us as the symbols themselves. Brerewood. Saint George of Merry England, the sign of victory. Spenser.

To act as a sinner. [Humorous] Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it. Pope.

employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism. [Socialism] was first applied in England to Owen's theory of social reconstruction, and in France to those also of St. Simon and Fourier . . . The word, however, is used with a great variety…

Probably from "saintes" saints, or from sanctities; -- used as an oath. [Obs.] Shak.

e tops of pillars for the exercise of their patience; -- called also pillarist and pillar saint.

Works of supererogation (R. C. Ch.), those good deeds believed to have been performed by saints, or capable of being performed by men, over and above what is required for their own salvation.

gen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.

Evidence; confirmation; warrant. [Obs.] She called the saints to surety, That she would never put it from her finger, Unless she gave it to yourself. Shak.

A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture.

A miracle worker; -- a title given by the Roman Catholics to some saints.

[Colloq.] It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. Saintsbury.

to a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum. [Obs.] "Tympanized, as other saints of God were." Oley.

To reduce from the rank of a canonized saint.

r. [Obs.] Through utter and through middle darkness borne. Milton. The very utter part pf Saint Adelmes point is five miles from Sandwich. Holinshed.