Consecrate :: Consecrate (a.) Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

Consecrate :: Consecrate (v. t.) To make, or declare to be, sacred; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service or worship of God; as, to consecrate a church; to give (one's self) unreservedly, as to the service of God..

Consecrate :: Consecrate (v. t.) To set apart to a sacred office; as, to consecrate a bishop..

Consecrate :: Consecrate (v. t.) To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor..

Consecrate :: Consecrate (v. t.) To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time..

Consecrated :: Consecrated (imp. & p. p.) of Consecrat.

Consecrater :: Consecrater (n.) Consecrator.

Consecrating :: Consecrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Consecrat.

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

Consecrator :: Consecrator (n.) One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes.

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

Deconsecrate :: Deconsecrate (v. t.) To deprive of sacredness; to secularize.

Desecrate :: Desecrate (v. t.) To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the opposite of consecrate.

Desecrated :: Desecrated (imp. & p. p.) of Desecrat.

Desecrater :: Desecrater (n.) One who desecrates; a profaner.

Desecrating :: Desecrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desecrat.

Desecration :: Desecration (n.) The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated.

Desecrator :: Desecrator (n.) One who desecrates.

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

Excito-secretory :: Excito-secretory (a.) Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action..

Hypersecretion :: Hypersecretion (n.) Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh..

Misconsecrate :: Misconsecrate (v. t.) To consecrate amiss.

Misconsecration :: Misconsecration (n.) Wrong consecration.

Obsecrate :: Obsecrate (v. t.) To beseech; to supplicate; to implore.

Obsecrated :: Obsecrated (imp. & p. p.) of Obsecrat.

Obsecrating :: Obsecrating (p. pr. & vb, n.) of Obsecrate.

Obsecration :: Obsecration (n.) The act of obsecrating or imploring; as, the obsecrations of the Litany, being those clauses beginning with By..

Obsecration :: Obsecration (n.) A figure of speech in which the orator implores the assistance of God or man.

Obsecratory :: Obsecratory (a.) Expressing, or used in, entreaty; supplicatory..

Reconsecrate :: Reconsecrate (v. t.) To consecrate anew or again.

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