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Webster 1913 Edition


Hallow

Hal′low

(hăl′lō̍)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Hallowed
(-lō̍d)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Hallowing
.]
[OE.
halowen
,
halwien
,
halgien
, AS.
hālgian
, fr.
hālig
holy. See
Holy
.]
To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence.
Hallowed be thy name.”
Matt. vi. 9.
Hallow
the Sabbath day, to do no work therein.
Jer. xvii. 24.
His secret altar touched with
hallowed
fire.
Milton.
In a larger sense . . . we can not
hallow
this ground [Gettysburg].
A. Lincoln.

Webster 1828 Edition


Hallow

HAL'LOW

,
Verb.
T.
[L. calleo, to be able.]
1.
To make holy; to consecrate; to set apart for holy or religious use. Ex.28.29. 1 Kings 8.
2.
To devote to holy or religious exercises; to treat as sacred.
Hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer.17.
3.
To reverence; to honor as sacred.
Hallowed be thy name.

Definition 2024


hallow

hallow

English

Noun

hallow (plural hallows)

  1. (archaic or dialectal) A saint; a holy person; an apostle.
    All Hallows Eve (or Halloween), the night before All Hallows Day (now more commonly known as "All Saints Day").
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English halwen (to hallow, sanctify), from Old English hālgian (to hallow, sanctify, make holy), from Proto-Germanic *hailagōną (to make holy), from *hailagaz (holy), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (whole, safe, hale), from Proto-Indo-European *koil- (safe, unharmed). Cognate with Dutch heiligen (to hallow), German heiligen (to bless). More at holy.

Verb

hallow (third-person singular simple present hallows, present participle hallowing, simple past and past participle hallowed)

  1. (transitive) To make holy, to sanctify.
    • c 1599, William Shakespeare, s:The Life of Henry the Fifth, Act 1, Scene II
      ...I am coming on, to venge me as I may and to put forth my rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.
    • 1847, Charles Swain, Dramatic Chapters: Poems and Songs, D. Bogue, pages 324:
      Come hallow the goblet with something more true / Than words we forget in a minute.
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English halowen, from halow (interjection), from Old English ēalā (O!, alas!, oh!, lo!, interjection), probably conflated with Old French halloer.

Alternative forms

Verb

hallow (third-person singular simple present hallows, present participle hallowing, simple past and past participle hallowed)

  1. To shout, especially to urge on dogs for hunting.

Noun

hallow (plural hallows)

  1. A shout, cry; a hulloo.
    • 1777, Robin Hood's Chase, reprinted in
      2003, Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Courier Dover Publications, ISBN 0486431479, page 206:
      Then away they went from merry Sherwood / And into Yorkshire he did hie / And the King did follow, with a hoop and a hallow / But could not come him nigh.
    • 1772, William Read Staples, The Documentary History of the Destruction of the Gaspee, Knowles, Vose, and Anthony, published 1845, pages 14:
      I told them, the sherriff could not be admitted on board this time of night, on which they set up a hallow and rowed as fast as they could towards the vessel's bows.

Etymology 4

Adjective

hallow (comparative more hallow, superlative most hallow)

  1. Alternative spelling of hollow
    • 1902, National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.), The Journal of Geography, National Council for Geographic Education, page 93:
      If the sun were a hallow sphere of its present size and the earth were placed at the center, the moon could [...]. Such a hallow sphere would hold more than a million balls the size of the earth.
    • 2003, George A. Lyall, To a Different Drummer: A Family's Story, Xlibris Corporation, ISBN 1401072860, pages 208:
      But it was not a hallow victory.