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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



... the excitement of their enthusiasm paced the hall. "Yes, I will gladly put my life into that kind of service. I do believe that Jesus would have me use my life in this way. Virginia, what miracles can we not accomplish in humanity if we have such a lever as consecrated money ...
— In His Steps • Charles M. Sheldon

... remembered by her as if it had been a promise. The middle-aged, who have lived through their strongest emotions, but are yet in the time when memory is still half passionate and not merely contemplative, should surely be a sort of natural priesthood, whom life has disciplined and consecrated to be the refuge and rescue of early stumblers and victims of self-despair. Most of us, at some moment in our young lives, would have welcomed a priest of that natural order in any sort of canonicals or uncanonicals, but had to scramble upward into all the difficulties of nineteen ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot

... great granddaughter of the Right Hon. John Foster (Lord Oriel), the last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. He himself was the great-grandson of an illustrious Irishman, Dr. Inglis, the Bishop of Nova Scotia, who was the first Anglican Colonial Bishop ever consecrated—a Trinity College, Dublin, man, and the son of a rector of Ardara, in Donegal. Dr. Inglis emigrated to America, and was, on the eve of the War of the American Independence, Rector of Holy Trinity Church, New York, then ...
— Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie • George Brenton Laurie

... apotheosis of Marat. "The soul," said he, "was moved and elevated in hearing Robespierre speak of the Supreme Being with philosophical ideas, embellished by eloquence;" and he signed the removal of the ashes of Marat to the temple consecrated to humanity! In September, 1797, he was, as a royalist, condemned to transportation by the Directory; but in 1799 Bonaparte recalled him, made him first a ...
— Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, Complete - Being Secret Letters from a Gentleman at Paris to a Nobleman in London • Lewis Goldsmith

... beginning of the New Year, and the custom still prevails in Russia of proffering such dishes at this time. The compliments of the season are commemorated by giving away the feet of the "brisk little pig." The first day of the New Year was Ovsen's day, but now consecrated to the memory of St. Basil the Great. The previous evening was called St. Basil's Eve, or Vasily's Eve. In one of the little ...
— A History of Nursery Rhymes • Percy B. Green


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