Usually means: Make sacred or holy formally.
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  1. consecrate: Merriam-Webster
  2. consecrate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. consecrate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. consecrate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. consecrate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Consecrate, consecrate: Wordnik
  7. consecrate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. consecrate: Wiktionary
  9. consecrate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. consecrate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. consecrate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Consecrate, consecrate: Dictionary.com
  13. consecrate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. consecrate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Consecrate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Consecrate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. consecrate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. consecrate: Rhymezone
  19. consecrate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. consecrate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. consecrate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. consecrate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. consecrate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. consecrate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. consecrate: Legal dictionary

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  1. consecrate: Encyclopedia

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  1. consecrate: Idioms

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  1. consecrate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (consecrate)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To declare something holy, or make it holy by some procedure.
▸ verb:  (transitive, Roman Catholicism, specifically) To ordain as a bishop.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To commit (oneself or one's time) solemnly to some aim or task.
▸ adjective:  Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

Similar:
hallow, bless, sanctify, votive, ordained, vow, order, dedicated, sacredize, behallow, more...

Opposite:
desecrate, profane, defile, dishonor

Types:
anoint, bless, ordain, more...

Phrases:
opposite of consecrate, to consecrate or purify from sin, more...

Adjectives:
dew, first, dark, few, such, most, higher

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Similar:
hallow, bless, sanctify, votive, ordained, vow, order, dedicated, sacredize, behallow, more...

Opposite:
desecrate, profane, defile, dishonor

Types:
anoint, bless, ordain, more...

Phrases:
opposite of consecrate, to consecrate or purify from sin, more...

Adjectives:
dew, first, dark, few, such, most, higher

Colors:
    gold,     white,     purple,     crimson,     scarlet, more...



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