Consecrated
['kənsə,kreitid]
Definition
(adj.) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high purpose; 'a life consecrated to science'; 'the consecrated chapel'; 'a chapel dedicated to the dead of World War II' .
(adj.) made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use; 'a consecrated church'; 'the sacred mosque'; 'sacred elephants'; 'sacred bread and wine'; 'sanctified wine' .
Edited by Kitty--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Consecrate
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Examples
- 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.
- They were her life; dearer than a spot consecrated to love, dearer than all else the earth contained. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Bulstrode's standard had been his serviceableness to God's cause: I am sinful and nought--a vessel to be consecrated by use--but use me! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The centre of its elaborate ritual was an altar, and the essential act of worship the sacrifice, by a consecrated priest, of the mass. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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