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Consecratory :: Consecratory (a.) Of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory.

Devotion :: Devotion (n.) The act of devoting; consecration.

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

Mass :: Mass (n.) The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host..

Veneration :: Veneration (n.) The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated; the highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe; a feeling or sentimental excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person, by sacredness of character, by consecration to sacred services, or by hallowed associations..

Misconsecration :: Misconsecration (n.) Wrong consecration.

Betroth :: Betroth (v. t.) To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration..

Sanctification :: Sanctification (n.) The act of consecrating, or of setting apart for a sacred purpose; consecration..

Disanoint :: Disanoint (v. t.) To invalidate the consecration of; as, to disanoint a king..

Unction :: Unction (n.) The act of anointing, smearing, or rubbing with an unguent, oil, or ointment, especially for medical purposes, or as a symbol of consecration; as, mercurial unction..

Consecration :: Consecration (n.) The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication.

Anniversary :: Anniversary (n.) The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope..

Tersanctus :: Tersanctus (n.) An ancient ascription of praise (containing the word Holy -- in its Latin form, Sanctus -- thrice repeated), used in the Mass of the Roman Catholic Church and before the prayer of consecration in the communion service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Cf. Trisagion..

Exaugurate :: Exaugurate (v. t.) To annul the consecration of; to secularize; to unhellow.

Host :: Host (n.) The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration..

Benediction :: Benediction (n.) The form of instituting an abbot, answering to the consecration of a bishop..

Encenia :: Encenia (n. pl.) A festival commemorative of the founding of a city or the consecration of a church; also, the ceremonies (as at Oxford and Cambridge, England) commemorative of founders or benefactors..

Offertory :: Offertory (n.) That part of the Mass which the priest reads before uncovering the chalice to offer up the elements for consecration.

Reconsecration :: Reconsecration (n.) Renewed consecration.

Episcopize :: Episcopize (v. t.) To make a bishop of by consecration.

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