consecrate

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  1. transitive verb To declare or set apart as sacred: consecrate a church.
  2. transitive verb Christianity To produce the ritual transformation of (the elements of the Eucharist) into the body and blood of Jesus.
  3. transitive verb Christianity To sanctify (bread and wine) for use in Communion.
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  • Mr. Nahum Tate is not of a class of whom it can be safe to say that they are “well known:” they and their desperate tricks are essentially obscure, and good reason he has to exult in the felicity of such obscurity; for else this same vilest of travesties, Mr. Nahum's Lear, would consecrate his name to everlasting scorn. —  Biographical Essays
  • Holiness is not a mere abstraction; it is praying and loving and being consecrate, but it is also the doing kind deeds, speaking friendly words, being in a crowd when we thirst to be alone, and so on and so on. —  The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
  • The churches in France wherein Foch knelt seeking guidance, beseeching strength, are likely to be doubly-consecrate, for ages, no less than those wherein Jeanne d'Arc prayed. —  Foch the Man
  • She has a great actress' capacity for emotion We moved through waters consecrate, and she expressed for us the spirit which hovered over them. —  Gossamer 1915
  • As we study it, therefore, we are listening to words which have been uttered many times on our behalf, and will be uttered until we are with Him, where He is, beholding the glory of the Divine Son, superadded to that of the Perfect Servant The R. V. margin substitutes the word consecrate for sanctify_, and it probably conveys a better meaning, because devotion to the will of God is prominent, rather than the holiness of personal character. —  Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.
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  1. Middle English consecraten, from Latin cōnsecrāre, cōnsecrāt- : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + sacrāre, to make sacred (from sacer, sacr-, sacred; see sak- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Latin consecratus, past participle of consecrare, dedicate, declare to be sacred, deify (later Italian consecrare, consegrare = Spanish Portuguese consagrar = Provencal consecrar, consegrar = French consacrer, consecrate: see consacre), from com-, together, + sacrare, consecrate, from sacer, sacred: see sacred. Cf. consacre.
  2. from Latin consecratus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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