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Consecrated   /kˈɑnsəkrˌeɪtəd/  /kˈɑnsəkrˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
Consecrated

adjective
1.
Solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high purpose.  Synonyms: consecrate, dedicated.  "The consecrated chapel" , "A chapel dedicated to the dead of World War II"
2.
Made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use.  Synonyms: sacred, sanctified.  "The sacred mosque" , "Sacred elephants" , "Sacred bread and wine" , "Sanctified wine"



Consecrate

verb
(past & past part. consecrated; pres. part. consecrating)
1.
Appoint to a clerical posts.  Synonyms: ordain, order, ordinate.
2.
Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.  Synonyms: commit, dedicate, devote, give.  "Give one's talents to a good cause" , "Consecrate your life to the church"
3.
Dedicate to a deity by a vow.  Synonym: vow.
4.
Render holy by means of religious rites.  Synonyms: bless, hallow, sanctify.



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"Consecrated" Quotes from Famous Books



... this Bishop's ascension to this place of dignity and cares: in which place—to speak Mr. Camden's very words in his Annals of Queen Elizabeth—"he devoutly consecrated both his whole life to God, and his painful labours to the good ...
— Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, - &C, Volume Two • Izaak Walton

... by the hands of the common hangman?—They took the petition of grievance, all rugged as it was, without softening or temperament, unpurged of the original bitterness and indignation of complaint—they made it the very preamble to their Act of redress, and consecrated its principle to all ages in the sanctuary ...
— Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America • Edmund Burke

... cleansing fires of the morrow, feel grown-up at once. And they yearned for the advent of the first day of the year, that they might begin writing in their new diaries. For the Sister there was a miniature gold consecrated medal. It was a small tribute of our esteem, but one that pleased ...
— A Versailles Christmas-Tide • Mary Stuart Boyd

... account, pulled out of one of his pouches a piece of consecrated candle, which he lighted immediately, and muttered certain mysterious conjurations. Jolter, imagining that Pallet was drunk, shook his head, saying, he believed the spirit was nowhere but in his own brain. The ...
— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett

... Church of England denied him a place there before it was asked, and the hallowed precincts which shelter the remains of Queen Anne's cook and John Broughton the pugilist are not for Herbert Spencer. His dust does not rest in consecrated ground. ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 • Elbert Hubbard


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