Definition of consecrate

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

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Votary :: Votary (a.) Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.
Tabernacle :: Tabernacle (n.) The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable..
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.
Devote :: Devote (v. t.) To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames..
Sanctuary :: Sanctuary (n.) A sacred place; a consecrated spot; a holy and inviolable site.
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..
Option :: Option (n.) A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845..
Catholicos :: Catholicos (n.) The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis..
Paten :: Paten (n.) The place on which the consecrated bread is placed in the Eucharist, or on which the host is placed during the Mass. It is usually small, and formed as to fit the chalice, or cup, as a cover..
Saint :: Saint (n.) A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent for piety and virtue; any true Christian, as being redeemed and consecrated to God..
Holiday :: Holiday (n.) A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday..
Reconsecrate :: Reconsecrate (v. t.) To consecrate anew or again.
Chrismation :: Chrismation (n.) The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil..
Incubation :: Incubation (n.) A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams.
Corporale :: Corporale (a.) A fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth..
Vestal :: Vestal (a.) A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar..
Dedicate :: Dedicate (p. a.) Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.
Corsned :: Corsned (n.) The morsel of execration; a species of ordeal consisting in the eating of a piece of bread consecrated by imprecation. If the suspected person ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt..
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..
Stercorarian :: Stercoranist (n.) A nickname formerly given to those who held, or were alleged to hold, that the consecrated elements in the eucharist undergo the process of digestion in the body of the recipient..
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