Word Meanings - BESAINT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make a saint of.

Related words: (words related to BESAINT)

• SAINTISM
  The character or quality of saints; also, hypocritical pretense of holiness. Wood.
• SAINTOLOGIST
  One who writes the lives of saints.
• SAINTDOM
  The state or character of a saint. Tennyson.
• SAINTLINESS
  Quality of being saintly.
• SAINTISH
  Somewhat saintlike; -- used ironically.
• SAINTHOOD
  1. The state of being a saint; the condition of a saint. Walpole. 2. The order, or united body, of saints; saints, considered collectively. It was supposed he felt no call to anu expedition that might sainthood. Sir W. Scott.
• SAINT-SIMONISM
  A system of socialism in which the state owns all the property and the laborer is entitled to share according to the quality and amount of his work, founded by Saint Simon .
• SAINT-SIMONIANISM
  The principles, doctrines, or practice of the Saint-Simonians; -- called also Saint-Simonism.
• SAINTSHIP
  The character or qualities of a saint.
• SAINT-SIMONIAN
  A follower of the Count de St. Simon, who died in 1825, and who maintained that the principle of property held in common, and the just division of the fruits of common labor among the members of society, are the true remedy for the social evils
• SAINTED
  1. Consecrated; sacred; holy; pious. "A most sainted king." Shak. Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats. Milton. 2. Entered into heaven; -- a euphemism for dead.
• SAINTESS
  A female saint. Bp. Fisher.
• SAINTLIKE
  Resembling a saint; suiting a saint; becoming a saint; saintly. Glossed over only with a saintlike show. Dryden.
• SAINT
  One canonized by the church. Saint Andrew's cross A cross shaped like the letter X. See Illust. 4, under Cross. A low North American shrub (Ascyrum Crux-Andræ, the petals of which have the form of a Saint Andrew's cross. Gray. -- Saint Anthony's
• SAINTLY
  Like a saint; becoming a holy person. So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity. Milton.
• ALL SAINTS; ALL SAINTS'
  The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.
• LATTER-DAY SAINT
  A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.
• UNSAINT
  To deprive of saintship; to deny sanctity to. South.
• UNSAINTLY
  Unbecoming to a saint. Gauden.
• BESAINT
  To make a saint of.
• EYESAINT; EYE-SAINT
  An object of interest to the eye; one wirehaired with the eyes. That's the eye-saint, I know, Among young gallants. Beau. & Fl.