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But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. (source)
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The priest consecrated the chapel.consecrated = made holy (typically by means of religious rites)
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They take bodies any age and do experiments on them and there's not much left to give back nor would you want back bits of baby when they can't be buried in consecrated ground in that condition. (source)consecrated = made holy by means of religious rites
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And then from a secret place Juana brought a little piece of consecrated candle and lighted it at the flame and set it upright on a fireplace stone. (source)
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The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. (source)consecrated = made holy
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Dad reached into his pocket and withdrew a vial of consecrated oil, which he placed in my palm.† (source)consecrated = made holy by means of religious rites
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Consecrated on the tenth of February in 1185 by Heraclius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, the Temple Church survived eight centuries of political turmoil, the Great Fire of London, and the First World War, only to be heavily damaged by Luftwaffe incendiary bombs in 1940.† (source)Consecrated = made holy by means of religious rites
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To be a knight, you must stand your vigil in a sept, and be anointed with the seven oils to consecrate your vows.† (source)
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And when Canon Mackie proceeded with the Holy Eucharist, to the Thanksgiving and Consecration, which he sang, I even judged him unfairly for his singing voice, which is not and never will be the equal of Canon Campbell's—God Rest His Soul.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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No, — I exaggerate; I never thought there was any consecrating virtue about her: it was rather a sort of pastille perfume she had left; a scent of musk and amber, than an odour of sanctity.† (source)
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As she listened to the consecrations, one for His Body and one for His Blood, she believed that the words of the priest were a sword which mystically separated the Blood from the Body.† (source)
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How fondly can I call you mine, bound by every tie which consecrates the most inviolable friendship, yet separated by a cruel destiny, I feel the pangs of absence sometimes too sensibly for my own repose.† (source)
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"They say there's a witch in uncons—unconsecrated ground," he said.† (source)unconsecrated = not made holy by means of religious ritesstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconsecrated means not and reverses the meaning of consecrated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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I pulled their wings off, throwing them away, and wrapped the fish in the now-consecrated fish blanket.† (source)consecrated = made holy by means of religious rites
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We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground ...the kids were reciting in a pitch that was close to screaming.† (source)
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Startled, I stopped speaking the litany of consecration.† (source)
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