Note 15 — Chapter II · THE INSTITUTION OF THE SABBATH.
Reading edition
Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary on the words sanctify and hallow. Ed. 1859.
The revised edition of 1864 gives this definition: “To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow. God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. Gen. 2:3. Moses ... sanctified Aaron and his garments. Lev. 8:30.”
Worcester defines it thus: “To ordain or set apart to sacred ends; to consecrate; to hallow. God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. Gen. 2:3.”