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..
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.
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..