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Votary :: Votary (n.) One devoted, consecrated, or engaged by a vow or promise; hence, especially, one devoted, given, or addicted, to some particular service, worship, study, or state of life..

Sanctuary :: Sanctuary (n.) A sacred place; a consecrated spot; a holy and inviolable site.

Sunday :: Sunday (n.) The first day of the week, -- consecrated among Christians to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day..

Valhalla :: Valhalla (n.) Fig.: A hall or temple adorned with statues and memorials of a nation's heroes; specifically, the Pantheon near Ratisbon, in Bavaria, consecrated to the illustrious dead of all Germany..

Votary :: Votary (a.) Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.

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

Hieratic :: Hieratic (a.) Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.

Vow :: Vow (n.) To give, consecrate, or dedicate to God, or to some deity, by a solemn promise; to devote; to promise solemnly..

Desecrate :: Desecrate (v. t.) To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the opposite of consecrate.

Chrism :: Chrism (n.) Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc..

Credence :: Credence (n.) The small table by the side of the altar or communion table, on which the bread and wine are placed before being consecrated..

Sanctify :: Sanctify (v. t.) To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.

Priest :: Priest (n.) One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power..

Disconsecrate :: Disconsecrate (v. t.) To deprive of consecration or sacredness.

Mystery :: Mystery (a.) The consecrated elements in the eucharist.

Stationed :: Station (n.) One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station o

Consecrater :: Consecrater (n.) Consecrator.

Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (n.) Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation..

Holiness :: Holiness (n.) The state of being hallowed, or consecrated to God or to his worship; sacredness..

Unholy :: Unholy (a.) Not holy; unhallowed; not consecrated; hence, profane; wicked; impious..

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