| salmonid | (noun) soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters | - |
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| salmwood | (noun) large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood | Synonyms: Cordia alliodora, cypre, Equador laurel, princewood, Spanish elm |
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| salol | (noun) a white powder with a pleasant taste and odor; used to absorb light in sun tan lotions or as a preservative or an antiseptic or a coating for pills in which the medicine is intended for enteric release | Synonyms: phenyl salicylate |
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| salon | (noun) elegant sitting room where guests are received | - |
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| (noun) gallery where works of art can be displayed | - |
| (noun) a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work | Synonyms: beauty parlor, beauty parlour, beauty salon, beauty shop |
| saloon | (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: bar, barroom, ginmill, taproom |
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| (noun) tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals | Synonyms: gin mill, pothouse, pub, public house, taphouse |
| (noun) a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors | Synonyms: sedan |
| salopettes | (noun) trousers usually of stretch material and kept taut by a strap under the foot, worn for skiing or as a fashion garment. | Synonyms: ski pants |
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| salp | (noun) minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end | Synonyms: salpa |
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| salpa | (noun) minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end | Synonyms: salp |
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| salpiglossis | (noun) any plant of the genus Salpiglossis | - |
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| salpingectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both Fallopian tubes | - |
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| salpingitis | (noun) inflammation of a Fallopian tube (usually the result of infection spreading from the vagina or uterus) or of a Eustachian tube | - |
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| salpinx | (noun) a tube in the uterus or the ear | - |
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| salsa | (noun) spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany Mexican foods | - |
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| salsify | (noun) either of two long roots eaten cooked | - |
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| (noun) Mediterranean biennial herb with long-stemmed heads of purple ray flowers and milky sap and long edible root; naturalized throughout United States | Synonyms: oyster plant, Tragopogon porrifolius, vegetable oyster |
| (noun) edible root of the salsify plant | Synonyms: oyster plant |
| salsilla | (noun) tropical vine having pink-and-yellow flowers spotted purple and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; West Indies to northern South America | Synonyms: Bomarea edulis |
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| (noun) tropical vine having umbels of small purple flowers and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; Colombia | Synonyms: Bomarea salsilla |
| salt | (adjective) (of speech) painful or bitter | - |
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| (noun) the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: salinity, saltiness |
| (noun) white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food | Synonyms: common salt, table salt |
| (noun) a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) | - |
| (verb) preserve with salt | - |
| (verb) add zest or liveliness to | - |
| (verb) sprinkle as if with salt | - |
| (verb) add salt to | - |
| saltate | (verb) leap or skip, often in dancing | - |
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| (verb) move by saltation | - |
| saltation | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, bound, leap, leaping, spring |
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| (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dance, dancing, terpsichore |
| (noun) (genetics) a mutation that drastically changes the phenotype of an organism or species | - |
| (noun) an abrupt transition | Synonyms: jump, leap |
| (noun) (geology) the leaping movement of sand or soil particles as they are transported in a fluid medium over an uneven surface | - |
| saltbox | (noun) a type of house built in New England; has two stories in front and one behind | - |
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| saltbush | (noun) any of various shrubby plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in dry alkaline soil | - |
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| saltcellar | (noun) a small container for holding salt at the dining table | - |
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| salted | (adjective) (used especially of meats) preserved in salt | Synonyms: brine-cured, salt-cured |
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| salter | (noun) someone who makes or deals in salt | Synonyms: salt merchant |
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| (noun) someone who uses salt to preserve meat or fish or other foods | - |
| saltine | (noun) a cracker sprinkled with salt before baking | - |
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| saltiness | (noun) the property of containing salt (as a compound or in solution) | - |
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| (noun) the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: salinity, salt |
| (noun) language or humor that is down-to-earth | Synonyms: coarseness |
| salting | (noun) the act of adding salt to food | - |
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| saltire | (noun) a cross resembling the letter x, with diagonal bars of equal length | Synonyms: St. Andrew's cross |
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| saltish | (adjective) somewhat salty | - |
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| saltlike | (adjective) resembling a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal | - |
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| saltpan | (noun) a shallow basin in a desert region; contains salt and gypsum that was deposited by an evaporated salt lake | - |
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| saltpeter | (noun) (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive | Synonyms: niter, nitre, potassium nitrate, saltpetre |
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| saltpetre | (noun) (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive | Synonyms: niter, nitre, potassium nitrate, saltpeter |
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| saltshaker | (noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt | Synonyms: salt shaker |
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| saltwater | (noun) water containing salts | Synonyms: brine, seawater |
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| saltworks | (noun) a plant where salt is produced commercially | - |
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| saltwort | (noun) low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves | Synonyms: Batis maritima |
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| (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: barilla, glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda |
| salty | (adjective) containing or filled with salt | - |
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| (adjective) engagingly stimulating or provocative | Synonyms: piquant |
| (adjective) one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water | - |
| salubrious | (adjective) promoting health; healthful | Synonyms: good for you, healthy |
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| (adjective) favorable to health of mind or body | - |
| salubriousness | (noun) the quality of being salubrious and invigorating | Synonyms: salubrity |
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| salubrity | (noun) the quality of being salubrious and invigorating | Synonyms: salubriousness |
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| salutary | (adjective) tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health | Synonyms: good |
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| salutation | (noun) (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting) | Synonyms: greeting |
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| (noun) an act of honor or courteous recognition | Synonyms: salute |
| (noun) word of greeting used to begin a letter | - |
| salutatorian | (noun) a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises | Synonyms: salutatory speaker |
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| salutatory | (noun) an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises) | Synonyms: salutatory address, salutatory oration |
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| salute | (noun) an act of honor or courteous recognition | Synonyms: salutation |
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| (noun) a formal military gesture of respect | Synonyms: military greeting |
| (noun) an act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like bowing or lifting the hat | - |
| (verb) greet in a friendly way | - |
| (verb) recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers | - |
| (verb) express commendation of | - |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, toast, wassail |
| (verb) become noticeable | - |
| saluter | (noun) a person who greets | Synonyms: greeter, welcomer |
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| salvage | (noun) the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire | - |
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| (noun) the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction | - |
| (noun) property or goods saved from damage or destruction | - |
| (verb) collect discarded material | Synonyms: scavenge |
| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salve, save |
| salvageable | (adjective) capable of being saved from ruin | - |
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| salvager | (noun) someone who salvages | Synonyms: salvor |
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| salvation | (noun) (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil | Synonyms: redemption |
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| (noun) a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness | - |
| (noun) saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation | - |
| (noun) the state of being saved or preserved from harm | - |
| salve | (noun) anything that remedies or heals or soothes | - |
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| (noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: balm, ointment, unction, unguent |
| (verb) apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing | - |
| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salvage, save |
| salver | (noun) a tray (or large plate) for serving food or drinks; usually made of silver | - |
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| salverform | (adjective) of or concerning a gamopetalous that has a slender tube and an abruptly expanded tip | - |
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| salvia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb | Synonyms: sage |
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| salvific | (adjective) pertaining to the power of salvation or redemption | - |
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| salving | (adjective) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin | Synonyms: demulcent, emollient, softening |
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| salvinorin | (noun) a hallucinogen obtained from Salvia divinorum | - |
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| salvo | (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: burst, fusillade, volley |
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| (noun) a sudden outburst of cheers | - |
| (noun) an outburst resembling the discharge of firearms or the release of bombs | - |
| salvor | (noun) someone who salvages | Synonyms: salvager |
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| salwar | (noun) a pair of light loose trousers with a tight fit around the ankles; worn by women from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a kameez) | Synonyms: shalwar |
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| saman | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, monkeypod, rain tree, zaman, zamang |
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| samara | (noun) a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple | Synonyms: key, key fruit |
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| samarium | (noun) a grey lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group; is used in special alloys; occurs in monazite and bastnasite | Synonyms: atomic number 62, Sm |
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| samarskite | (noun) a complex black mineral occurring in pegmatites | - |
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| samba | (noun) a lively dance from Brazil, with roots from Africa | - |
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| (noun) a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers | - |
| (noun) music composed for dancing the samba | - |
| (noun) large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood | Synonyms: arere, obeche, obechi, Triplochiton scleroxcylon |
| (verb) dance the samba | - |
| sambar | (noun) a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines | Synonyms: Cervus unicolor, sambur |
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| sambuca | (noun) an Italian liqueur made with elderberries and flavored with licorice | - |
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| sambur | (noun) a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines | Synonyms: Cervus unicolor, sambar |
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| same | (adjective) closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree | - |
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| (adjective) same in identity | - |
| (adjective) equal in amount or value | Synonyms: like |
| (adjective) unchanged in character or nature | - |
| samekh | (noun) the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| sameness | (noun) the quality of being alike | - |
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| (noun) the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety | Synonyms: humdrum, monotony |
| samiel | (noun) a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa | Synonyms: simoom, simoon |
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| samisen | (noun) a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretless fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum | Synonyms: shamisen |
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| samite | (noun) a heavy silk fabric (often woven with silver or gold threads); used to make clothing in the Middle Ages | - |
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| samizdat | (noun) a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature | Synonyms: underground press |
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| samosa | (noun) small turnover of Indian origin filled with vegetables or meat and fried and served hot | - |
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| samovar | (noun) a metal urn with a spigot at the base; used in Russia to boil water for tea | - |
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| sampan | (noun) an Asian skiff usually propelled by two oars | - |
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| samphire | (noun) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass | Synonyms: glasswort, Salicornia europaea |
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| sample | (noun) a small part of something intended as representative of the whole | - |
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| (noun) items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population | Synonyms: sample distribution, sampling |
| (noun) all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class | - |
| (verb) take a sample of | Synonyms: taste, try, try out |
| sampler | (noun) a piece of embroidery demonstrating skill with various stitches | - |
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| (noun) an observation station that is set up to make sample observations of something | Synonyms: sampling station |
| (noun) an assortment of various samples | - |
| (noun) someone who samples food or drink for its quality | Synonyms: taste-tester, taste tester, taster |
| sampling | (noun) (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study | - |
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| (noun) measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form) | - |
| (noun) items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population | Synonyms: sample, sample distribution |
| samsara | (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth | - |
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| samurai | (noun) feudal Japanese military aristocracy | - |
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| (noun) a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy | - |
| sanatarium | (noun) a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases | Synonyms: sanatorium, sanitarium |
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| sanative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, curative, healing, remedial, therapeutic |
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| sanatorium | (noun) a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases | Synonyms: sanatarium, sanitarium |
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| (noun) pejorative terms for an insane asylum | Synonyms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, snake pit |
| sanctification | (noun) a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | - |
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| sanctified | (adjective) made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use | Synonyms: consecrated, sacred |
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| sanctify | (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, purify |
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| (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, consecrate, hallow |
| (verb) give religious sanction to, such as through an oath | Synonyms: sanction |
| sanctimonious | (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistic, pietistical, self-righteous |
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| sanctimoniously | (adverb) in a sanctimonious manner | Synonyms: self-righteously |
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| sanctimoniousness | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimony |
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| sanctimony | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimoniousness |
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| sanction | (noun) the act of final authorization | - |
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| (noun) a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards | - |
| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, authorization |
| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, indorsement, warrant |
| (verb) give sanction to | Synonyms: approve, O.K., okay |
| (verb) give religious sanction to, such as through an oath | Synonyms: sanctify |
| (verb) give authority or permission to | - |
| sanctionative | (adjective) implying sanction or serving to sanction | Synonyms: sanctioning |
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| sanctioned | (adjective) established by authority; given authoritative approval | Synonyms: approved |
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| (adjective) formally approved and invested with legal authority | Synonyms: ratified |
| (adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonic, canonical |
| sanctioning | (adjective) implying sanction or serving to sanction | Synonyms: sanctionative |
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| sanctitude | (noun) the quality of being holy | Synonyms: holiness, sanctity |
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| sanctity | (noun) the quality of being holy | Synonyms: holiness, sanctitude |
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