Consecrate

['kɒnsɪkreɪt]

解释:

(verb.) render holy by means of religious rites.

整理:威廉--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

(v. t.) To make, or declare to be, sacred; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service or worship of God; as, to consecrate a church; to give (one's self) unreservedly, as to the service of God.

(v. t.) To set apart to a sacred office; as, to consecrate a bishop.

(v. t.) To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor.

(v. t.) To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time.

编辑:罗比

同义词及近义词：

v. a. Dedicate, devote, hallow, sanctify, ordain, set apart as sacred, appropriate to sacred uses.

编辑:韦德

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Dedicate, devote, enshrine, hallow, sanctify

ANT:Desecrate, secularize, profane

手打:胡里奥

解释:

v.t. to set apart for a holy use: to render holy or venerable; to hallow; to devote.—adj. consecrated: devoted: sanctified.—ns. Con′secratedness; Consecrā′tion the act of devoting to a sacred use; Con′secrator.—adj. Con′secratory making sacred.

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