Consecrate
['kɒnsɪkreɪt]
Definition
(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.
Typist: Robbie
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Dedicate, devote, hallow, sanctify, ordain, set apart as sacred, appropriate to sacred uses.
Checker: Wade
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Dedicate, devote, enshrine, hallow, sanctify
ANT:Desecrate, secularize, profane
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Definition
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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Examples
- We must consecrate that which we believe to be the most holy, and that 'which is the most holy will be the most useful. Plato. The Republic.
- Consecrate your existence to the recollection of James Steerforth's tenderness--he would have made you his serving-man's wife, would he not? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I propose to consecrate this little retreat, by having a ceremony in which I take a great interest, performed there. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Let the day therefore be fixed; and on it I will consecrate myself, in life or death, to the happiness of my cousin. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- To thee neither hands buildnor lips consecrate: but hearts, through ages, are faithful to thy worship. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Chase away your idle fears; to you alone do I consecrate my life, and my endeavours for contentment. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Moreover, a priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense _esprit de corps_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mon amie, said he, none knows what I have done save you and myself: the pleasure is consecrated to us two, unshared and unprofaned. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He soon returned, bringing a plate in his own consecrated hand. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Père Silas _did_ say that his vocation was almost that of a priest--that his life was considered consecrated. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Is this place of abomination consecrated ground? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was not priestly, it had no consecrated temple and no altar. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I consecrated my future life, to the embalming of her dear memory; I vowed to serve her brother and her child till death. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Editor: Rosalie