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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..

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

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

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

Reconsecration :: Reconsecration (n.) Renewed consecration.

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..

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

Anoint :: Anoint (v. t.) To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

Antecommunion :: Antecommunion (n.) A name given to that part of the Anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements..

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..

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

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

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