Saint

[seɪnt] or [sent]

Definition

(noun.) person of exceptional holiness.

(noun.) a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization.

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Definition

(n.) A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent for piety and virtue; any true Christian, as being redeemed and consecrated to God.

(n.) One of the blessed in heaven.

(n.) One canonized by the church.

(v. t.) To make a saint of; to enroll among the saints by an offical act, as of the pope; to canonize; to give the title or reputation of a saint to (some one).

(v. i.) To act or live as a saint.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Holy person.

Edited by Gillian

Definition

n. a sanctified or holy person: one eminent for piety: one of the blessed dead: one canonised by the R.C. Church: an image of a saint: an angel: (pl.) Israelites as a people: Christians generally.—v.t. to salute as a saint.—adj. Saint′ed made a saint: holy: sacred: gone to heaven: canonised.—n. Saint′hood.—adj. Saint′ish somewhat saintly or affectedly so.—n. Saint′ism the character or quality of a saint: sanctimoniousness.—adjs. Saint′-like Saint′ly like or becoming a saint.—adv. Saint′lily.—n. Saint′liness.—adj. Saint′-seem′ing appearing like a saint.—n. Saint′ship the character of a saint.—Saint's day a day set apart for the commemoration of a particular saint; St Agnes's flower the snowflake; St Andrew's cross a North American shrub; St Andrew's Day 30th November; St Anthony's fire erysipelas; St Anthony's nut the pig-nut or hawk-nut; St Audrey's necklace a string of holy stones; St Barbara's cress the yellow rocket; St Barnaby's thistle the English star-thistle; St Bennet's herb the herb bennet; St Bernard a kind of dog; St Blase's disease quinsy; St Cassian beds a division of the Triassic series; St Crispin's Day 25th October; St David's Day 1st March; St Domingo duck a West Indian duck; St Domingo grebe the smallest grebe in America; St Elmo's fire (see Elmo's fire); St George's Day 23d April; St George's ensign the distinguishing flag of the British navy a red cross on a white field; St Hubert's disease hydrophobia; St John's bread the carob bean: ergot of rye; St John's Day 27th December; St John's hawk a blackish variety of the rough-legged buzzard; St Julien an esteemed red Bordeaux wine from the M閐oc region; St Leger the name of a race run at Doncaster so called since 1778 from Col. St Leger; St Luke's summer a period of pleasant weather about the middle of October; St Martin's evil drunkenness; St Martin's summer a season of mild damp weather in late autumn; St Nicholas's Day 6th December; St Patrick's Day 17th March; St Peter's finger a belemnite; St Peter's fish the dory; St Peter's wort a name of several plants; St Pierre group a thick mass of shales in the upper Missouri region; St Swithin's Day 15th July; St Valentine's Day 14th February; St Vitus's dance chorea.—All-Saints' Day a feast observed by the Latin Church on 1st November in the Greek Church on the first Sunday after Pentecost; Communion of the Saints the spiritual fellowship of all true believers the blessed dead as well as the faithful living mystically united in each other in Christ; Intercession Perseverance of saints (see Intercession Perseverance); Latter-day saints the Mormons' name for themselves; Patron saint a saint who is regarded as a protector as St George of England St Andrew of Scotland St Patrick of Ireland St David of Wales St Denis of France St James of Spain St Nicholas of Russia St Stephen of Hungary St Mark of Venice &c.

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n. A dead sinner revised and edited.

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