英和和英

読み方 まつる

他動詞

1

（＝神を祭る）to worship （a god）; to celebrate the festival of （a god）; to dedicate, consecrate （a shrine to a god）

用例

• 先祖を祀る
  to worship one's ancestors

• 戦死者は靖国神社へ祀られる
  Those killed in battle are worshipped at the Yasukuni Shrine.
• 宮を建てて神を祭る
  to erect a shrine to a god―dedicate a shrine to a god―consecrate a shrine to a god
• 天神を祭った社
  a shrine dedicated to―consecrated to―sacred to―the God of Learning
• あれは何神を祀った宮か
  What god is that shrine sacred to?
• 招魂社は国家のために生命を棄てた勇士を祭った社である
  The Shokonsha is a shrine sacred to the spirits of the heroes who fell fighting for their country.
• 先祖の霊を祀る
  to perform religious service to the spirits of our ancestors
• 記念碑を建立して偉人の霊を祀る
  A monument is erected to the spirit of a great man―（西洋ふうに言えば）―erected to the memory of a great man.
• 西郷隆盛の霊を祀る（碑文）
  To the memory of Saigo Takamori.

2

（＝人を神に祀る）to deify, apotheosize （a man）

用例

• 菅公は神に祀られた
  Sugawara Michizane has been apotheosized.

• 人の霊を祀る
  to enshrine one's memory