Sample Sentences forconsecrate (editor-reviewed)
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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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I consecrate this ground in the name of Frey.† (source)
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"I consecrate the daughter of Liet in the Sayyadina," husked the old woman.† (source)
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Dad reached into his pocket and withdrew a vial of consecrated oil, which he placed in my palm.† (source)
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Startled, I stopped speaking the litany of consecration.† (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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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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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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On the twenty-fifth of April, and the eighteenth of June, the days of marriage and widowhood, she kept her room entirely, consecrating them (and we do not know how many hours of solitary night-thought, her little boy sleeping in his crib by her bedside) to the memory of that departed friend.† (source)
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"It's unconsecrated ground," said Silas.† (source)standard 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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Christian Socialism is but the holy, water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.† (source)
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Ay, Dios, how I worried that he had taken our baby from consecrated ground.† (source)
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What we did had a consecration of its own.† (source)
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I didn't know any name for what I'd seen until some years afterward in Atlanta, when I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.† (source)
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