How To Use Consecrate In A Sentence

Publican John Keating is redeveloping the deconsecrated St Mary's Church on Mary Street in Dublin 1, which is due to open as a bar and restaurant at the end of the summer.
The cemetery was also one of the few cemeteries that allowed stillborn babies to be buried in consecrated ground.
I wear special ritual jewellery but there's no time to cleanse and consecrate your stuff. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
Actually it's called a monstrance and it contains a consecrated communion wafer (the big size that only priests get to eat), which by now has magically become the body and blood of Jesus Christ in the form of bread. (there was a time when people chopped each other's heads off over a disagreement about whether it contained any blood) "the abuse took place in the 1970s; the police were informed and acted" - Jack Valero RichardDawkins.net : The Latest Updates
Logically, Youth has re-equipped him for sin and with the disposition to commit it; he will naturally go to the fane which is consecrated to the Fulfillment of Desires, and make arrangements. Following the Equator, Part 6

Among the other notable churches of Orvieto are San Giovenale, which contains remnants of ancient frescoes, and San Andrea, which has a dodecagon tower; in 1220 Pierre d'Artois was consecrated King of Jerusalem by The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
Oh! -- to the really 'consecrate' in heart and thought I could give my life so easily, so slavishly even! Marcella
He needs consecrated men, to hurl them against the organized powers, and inbreaking hordes, that are desecrating the Sabbath, corrupting the Sketches of the Covenanters
the consecrated chapel
If both must be taken or rejected together, an alternative which we emphatically deny, what sincere and earnest thinker now, whose will is unterrifiedly consecrated to truth, can be expected to hesitate long? The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
Detached action along with the fruits of this action is consecrated to God and this forms the basis of karma yoga.
Visiting the abbey church in the Harz mountain town of Quedlinburg, he notes that it was deconsecrated in the 1930s by Heinrich Himmler and turned into a shrine to the SS. Teutonic Temptations
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not 6 consecrate hallow - this ground.
In June 1162 Becket was consecrated archbishop of Canterbury.
The new Infant Jesus Church will be consecrated on Thursday at Vivekanagar.
Work on the cathedral began almost immediately; the Lady Chapel was consecrated in 1225, and the cathedral as a whole in 1258.
The Church of Ireland congregation too had good reason to celebrate during 2004 with the Rededication of the Colliery Church after 175 years since it was first consecrated.
He has been consecrated by grace to God for God's own special use.
They honour the dead and they Support Our Troops and they wear red on Fridays and they sneer at those who oppose the war and they imagine that Remembrance Day consecrates that war as well as those who have died, in this conflict and in the ones that have ended. Archive 2009-11-01
The only bread available was consecrated bread used in the tabernacle.
I saw her gazing earnestly at her brother's portrait and all the precious little objects consecrated to his memory, which I had arranged by my benitier and crucifix, but I did not expect her firs exclamation, when our woman had left us: 'Ah! Madame, how happy you are!' Stray Pearls
A stupa is usually a mound consecrated to the Buddha, so that the mud pies mentioned above are a form of stupa. Sotoba Komachi
Properly speaking, a superaltar is a small movable slab of stone, which is placed, as occasion for the celebration of the Holy Communion may require, upon some unconsecrated table or altar.
These were large spaces of unconsecrated ground, away from churchyards or the centre of town. Times, Sunday Times
The only bread available was consecrated bread used in the tabernacle.
Believing he had been called by God to Christianize Ireland, he joined the Catholic Church and studied for 15 years before being consecrated as the church's second missionary to Ireland.
After all, the consecrated bread had become body, and a body already contains blood.
If we reserve consecrated bread and wine and kneel before it, why should we not preserve the world with the same reverence?
Shimla, 28 October 2006 (PTI) - Tibetan spiritual head The Dalai Lama today consecrated the ancient Thungyur Lakhang Buddhist gompa (monastery) at Rampur today to mark 2550th anniversary of 'Mahaparinirvan' (enlightenment) of Lord Buddha. Newsroom Archive 2006
The ciborium is the bowl that contains the consecrated eucharistic Host prepared for Holy Communion. A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art
And what we have is some bread and wine - consecrated by the Word and prayer to be to us the body and blood of our Lord.
The remains can be reinterred in an unconsecrated piece of ground at the courthouse.
Or shall it be a quarter of heaven itself - an hypethral temple, consecrated to the service of the gods?
The third section is exclusively consecrated to nutrition and feeding, a very important part of animal production, and is divided into three chapters.
A circular church was consecrated on the site in 1694, but the present church was built in 1818, possibly around the original inner maqdas.
No matter a building's original purpose, once it is consecrated to the service of humanity it resonates with a positive vibration that is experienced daily.
Not desiring to defile the wall of the consecrated place, I went round the corner to spit into the gutter.
In fact, a bishop today is not consecrated but ordained.
For she bids us commit to the earth the corpses of all who die not "unbaptized," "excommunicate," or wilful suicides, and who are willing to lie in our consecrated ground; giving thanks to God that our dear brother has been delivered from the miseries of this sinful world, and in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life. Westminster Sermons with a Preface
In the numerous cases in which some person or some object was to be consecrated to the deity a sacrifice was necessary in order to secure his good will; the ordination of temple-ministers, or the initiation of the young into the tribe, demanded some _consecrative_ sacrifice. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
As "canons" are normally rigid, consecrated and unvarying liturgical doctrines, your citing of a "loose canon" is an amusing concept. Page 2
The entire rite of enclosing the second large Host in a chalice is omitted, and indeed, no large Host is consecrated for the celebrant of the rite of Holy Friday. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 3 - The Mass of Holy Thursday and the Mandatum
There he stood calling hastily for a drink; and her heart more than her eyes took in his, to her, consecrated signalment -- the riding-boots, short clothes, blue coat, cocked hat, ruffles. Balcony Stories
It is always to be remembered, that Saint John's Church thus consecrated and set apart to the worship of Almighty God, is by the act of consecration thus performed, separated from all worldly and unhallowed uses, and to be considered sacred to the service of the _Holy and undivided Trinity_. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
Time consecrates: what is gray with age becomes religion.
[C] The name consecrated by De Saussure to designate certain rocks in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
An additional burial ground at Kettlewell Church was consecrated.
In its first room were the lamp-stand, the table and the consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place.
While this nuptial dimension belongs to the entire Church by reason of our baptism, the cloistered nun is consecrated to be an icon of this reality.
In 1880, at a time when enthusiasm for industrial invention was at its height, the museum was reorganized and the deconsecrated church nave converted into a magnificent space for exhibiting machines.
After all, it's not every day a housing development takes place on a burial ground, albeit unconsecrated.
James and Preston wanted the land to be taken from the mine, prayed over, filled in, and reconsecrated to the spirits who dwell there.
a construction hard hat and a raincoat to hurriedly deconsecrate a historic Anglican chapel, which had suffered irreparable damage. FOXNews.com
The bishop has given permission for the church to install an aumbr, a small safe where bread and wine consecrated by a priest during Holy Communion are stored, in a side chapel.
I wear special ritual jewellery but there's no time to cleanse and consecrate your stuff. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
He had been appointed by Henry in 1163, but was never formally consecrated before being removed in 1172.
The first woman bishop may be consecrated before 2010, opening the way eventually to the appointment of a woman Archbishop of Canterbury.
Thus the self-gift entailed by celibacy "consecrates" as a space for grace and service what would otherwise be a mere absence, a hole in one's being. Holy Thursday: God or the Girl?
Those who adopt the calling consecrate themselves to it by some religious ceremony, and ever after are connected with the temples. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months
At sunset, we climbed one deconsecrated pagoda to look over a landscape empty but for myriad other pagodas. Times, Sunday Times
When she became a mother, she forgot in her joy that the life of her little one did not belong to her; nor did she recall her fateful vow until one bright spring day, when the clouds gathered and she heard the roll of the thunder, -- a sound which summoned all persons consecrated to this god to bring their offerings and to pay their vows. Indian Story and Song from North America
If we reserve consecrated bread and wine and kneel before it, why should we not preserve the world with the same reverence?
The revolutionist is a person doomed obrechennyi, in older usage signifying also “consecrated”. Estrich on political inexperience
Lequien (II, 621) mentions six bishops of Cyrene, and according to Byzantine legend the first was St. Lucius (Acts, xiii, 1); St. Theodorus suffered martyrdom under Diocletian; about 370 Philo dared to consecrate by himself a bishop for Hydra, and was succeeded by his own nephew, Philo; Rufus sided with Dioscorus at the Robber Synod (Latrocinium) of Ephesus in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
The newly consecrated candidates were to serve as missionary bishops to the United States, because of the perceived departure of the Episcopal Church from traditional Anglican standards on sexuality.
If these men had such a king as this, who, while self-indulgent, should lay no severe restraint on them, they would more enthusiastically consecrate to him a temple and a flamen than the ancient Romans did to Romulus.
But in a large sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.
I wear special ritual jewellery but there's no time to cleanse and consecrate your stuff. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
He was consecrated archbishop of Canterbury by Pope Vitalius in 668.
For such people one difficulty was the absence of a canonically consecrated metropolitan in Ireland.
They buried him in unconsecrated ground, as befitted a disreputable member of a degenerate profession.
Moses then took the anointing oil, anointed the Tabernacle, and all that was within it and consecrated it.
The present Holy Trinity church was consecrated in 1845 on a site on the main road and beside an already established village.
To give the seal of confirmation to the prophet and his vision by the fulfilment. anoint the Most Holy -- primarily, to "anoint," or to consecrate after its pollution "the Most Holy" place but mainly Messiah, the antitype to the Most Holy place (Joh 2: 19-22). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
A land that wears a laurel crown may be fair to see; but twine a few sad cypress leaves around the brow of any land, and be that land barren, beautiless and bleak, it becomes lovely in its consecrated coronet of sorrow, and it wins the sympathy of the heart and of history. Father Ryan's Poems.
We all know that to consecrate is to set apart for holy service. Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries.
a consecrated church
It was while in Rome that Pope Honorius the first consecrated him a bishop.
He had to be buried in unconsecrated ground outside the city walls.
Definitely let each covener have an active role; if you have four members or more, you may want to have each person or a pair call one Quarter and/or consecrate the Circle with one of the Elements. Where To Park Your Broomstick
Haemon's marriage debars him from being the victim, for he is no longer single; for even if he have not consummated his marriage, yet is he betrothed; but this tender youth, consecrated to the city's service, might by dying rescue his country; and bitter will he make the return of Adrastus and his Argives, flinging o'er their eyes death's dark pall, and will glorify Thebes. The Phoenissae
The cemetery, which is believed to have been consecrated in 1724, is managed at present by the Church of South India Trust.
My friend, Mr. Webster puts it this way: Profane1: Not being concerned with religion or religious purposes, secular 2: Not Holy because unconsecrated, impure, or unsanctified 3: Serving to defile what is Holy.
Lives in a humble 'chapeau' and if he were married he probably would have 'consecrated' the union on the wedding night. That’s just icky.
It shall relume that Promethean fire, that sublime flame of patriotism, that devoted love of country, which his words have commended, which his example has consecrated. Washington's Birthday
That thei also should haue in euery parisshe a faire sounde stone, made holowe and fitte to holde water: in the whiche the water consecrate for baptisme, may be kept for the christening of children. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
Two things only did they consider important – to keep the fasts and to be buried in consecrated ground. High Albania
His goal was to create new categories, to use the vocabulary of landscape and genre paintings for the most consecrated art.
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For the fourthe Sacramente it is holden, that euery prieste rightly priested, acordyng to the keies of the Churche, hauing an entente to consecrate, and obseruynge the fourme of the woordes: hathe power, of wheaten breade to make the very bodie of Christe, and of wine to make his very bloude. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
Luxor was consecrated to the "Theban Triad": Amon-Ra; his earth-mother consort, Mut; and their moon-god kid, Khonsu. Letter From Egypt
He also consecrated the sacred emetics (the button-snake root and the cassina or black-drink) by pouring a little of them into the fire. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
And what reason hath the church of God to admit none to be her ministers to consecrate and daily receive this most pure sacrament, but such as devote themselves to The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
_ -- no consecrated one, but one dug ready to receive a corpse; _dug, in savage threatening of slaughter, for the reception of one yet living_ -- the son of the noble owner of that ancient domain -- dug in sight of his father's house, in his own park, by wretches who have warned him to prepare to fill that grave in October! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
From the seventh century the mass of the presanctified, when the priest communicated from elements previously consecrated, is found in use on certain days, and in the East throughout except on Saturdays and Sundays. The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003
Revenge for an unatoned wrong is a stern, fundamental, eternal law, sanctioned by Manóbo institutions, social, political, and religious; one that is consecrated by the breath of the dying, and passed on from generation to generation to be fulfilled; but it has one saving clause, _arbitration_. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
The great thing about them is that even though they are consecrated to monuments or famous landscapes, the photos inevitably contain all kinds of interesting people of the period in them.
By this simple gesture I no longer belong to myself but am consecrated for the specific mission of being a woman of prayer and intercession for the Church.
He was looking at it as though it were an animal, days dead and far gone in putrefaction, that had been malevolently dumped on a pristine altar consecrated to solemn rituals and tended to by votaries of an elite cult. Florence of Arabia
After all, the consecrated bread had become body, and a body already contains blood.
This might not be one in the end -- but it was clearly a toss-up; and to consecrate a toss-up in this fashion with manufactured unction before a crowd of fashionable free-thinkers -- for who thought otherwise than freely, or not at all, when they were "dolled" up -- seemed to her as near a sin as one could find in an age which had abolished them. The Forsyte Saga - Complete
For the customary morality, that which education and opinion have consecrated, is the only one which presents itself to the mind with the feeling of being _in itself_ obligatory; and when a person is asked to believe that this morality _derives_ its obligation from some general principle round which custom has not thrown the same halo, the assertion is to him a paradox; the supposed corollaries seem to have a more binding force than the original theorem; the superstructure seems to stand better without, than with, what is represented as its foundation. Utilitarianism
The Bishop of Middlesborough received and consecrated her as a hermit in 1994 and she took her vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.
He refused only to renew his own homage or to recognize or consecrate bishops whom the king had invested.
We mark that this day was sacred to the goddess Venus, to whom the Phoenicians consecrated the fish.
It is curious how little interest even Athanasius shows in the Unity of the Trinity, which he scarcely mentions except when quoting the Dionysii; it is Didymus and the Cappadocians who word Trinitarian doctrine in the manner since consecrated by the centuries -- three hypostases, one usia; but this is merely the conventional translation of the ancient Latin formula, though it was new to the East. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
It is apparently a lurking disposition to induce men to discharge the duties of beneficence, without laying their hearts on the altar of God, and keeping them perpetually burning there; whereas Christ requires the _heart_, and the heart _always_; and then that conduct which inevitably bursts from a consecrated soul. The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character
‘It is a disgrace to see the Church where Wolfe Tone was baptised and where the famous preacher John Wesley gave sermons being deconsecrated and turned into a pub,’ Mr Cassidy said.
It has shown itself unable to pass on the faith in its integrity and is inadequate, therefore, in fostering the joyful self-surrender called for in Christian marriage, in consecrated life, in ordained priesthood. Jesuit: Obama is "the most effective spokesperson" for "the spirit of Vatican II"
He has some excellent things to say about the importance of chastity, especially among persons consecrated to God by sacred ordination or by vows.
Byron, too, distinguished Moore as "a name consecrated by unshaken public principle, and the most undoubted and various talents. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12.
In countries outside India, temples have often been fashioned from converted premises, from schools, deconsecrated churches, homes, even factories.
Maggie, one day, long before, and under her own attendance precisely, had, for the glory of the name she bore, paid a visit to one of the ampler shrines of the supreme exhibitory temple, an alcove of shelves charged with the gold-and-brown, gold-and - ivory, of old Italian bindings and consecrated to the records of the Prince's race. The Golden Bowl — Complete
CONSECRATE THE DELPHINIUM TO TITUS AND TO HERCULES; and what is yet more remarkable, even in our time, a priest of Titus was formally elected and declared; and after sacrifice and libation, they sang a set song, of which these are the closing verses: -- The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls
For this it is which the apostle meaneth when he saith, we have "boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us through the vail, that is to say, his flesh. The Heavenly Footman
I was a fan of this musical when it played in a deconsecrated church basement in the West End in 2002.
Curator Jan Hoet set the ninth edition of the Sonsbeek public art exhibition in the original park, a deconsecrated church and a shopping mall.
He lived to know that the fulsome adulation of the pitiable bishops whom he had consecrated to serve his own ends could not drown one howl of the conscience which he had transformed into a bandog within him. Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
The church was consecrated by Pope Innocent IV in 1253.
It is faced with Kentish ragstone, and was consecrated 1862. Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London
‘At the moment they can just be deconsecrated at the behest of a bishop and the people who paid for these churches have no say,’ Mr Cassidy said.
He cleansed the water, scattered consecrated herbs, and chanted ancient incantations.
The only difference between the application of the same term to Christ and the disciples is, as applied to Christ, that it means only to "consecrate"; whereas, in application to the disciples, it means to consecrate with the additional idea of previous sanctification, since nothing but what is holy can be presented as an offering. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Some classical moralists debated whether such sins involving a priest consecrated both by ordination and by a vow of chastity constituted one or two sacrileges.
Responding to the needs of a growing community at Lawkholme, Holy Trinity Church had been consecrated in 1882.
But the book of Enoch is consecrated, in some measure, by the quotation of the apostle St. Jude; and a long legendary fragment is alleged by The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
What Lincoln actually said at Gettysburg was: ‘We cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow this ground.’
Believing he had been called by God to Christianize Ireland, he joined the Catholic Church and studied for 15 years before being consecrated as the church's second missionary to Ireland.
After the priest consecrates the bread and wine, their accidents alone remain, without inhering in any substance.
Second, researchers could ask if Catholics believe that the consecrated bread and wine are symbols in which the body and blood of Christ are really present.
Eunomian heresy; the African voyage was consecrated by the baptism and auspicious name of the first soldier who embarked; and the proselyte was adopted into the family of his spiritual parents, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Heck, we were warned before our wedding vows that the word is "consecrate", not "constipate". Lisa and Michael Littman: Oath and Variations
His call in a sermon in Leeds came on the 10th anniversary of the Act, as the campaign to allow women to be consecrated as bishops has reignited the controversy in the Anglican communion.
The answer is that the superaltars which are made by the bishops when a church is consecrated, suffice oratories in lieu of consecration or enthronement when they are sent to them, on the occasion of their dedication or opening.
Thus the admonition in I Corinthians 7, where the children are sanctified by at least one believing parent - else they would be unholy, or, in other words, unconsecrated.
Three of the four new bishops were consecrated by Archbishop Carroll in the fall of 1810, and there followed two weeks of meetings in what was an unofficial provincial council.
THE PEOPLE CONSECRATE THE DELPHINIUM TO TITUS AND TO HERCULES; and what is yet more, even in our time, a priest of Titus was formally elected and declared; and after sacrifice and libation, they sing a set song, much of which for the length of it we omit, but shall transcribe the closing verses: — The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
After the English Reformation, many holy buildings such as tombs, charnel-houses, cloisters and churches were deconsecrated, emptied of their contents, sold away or destroyed.
The rule of the Church is that no man who has gone out with the known intention of taking blood, but is killed himself, may be buried in consecrated ground, for he has died with the sin of intended murder on his soul. High Albania
Levi near the brass cauldrons of the sanctuary, and every now and then plunging in a consecrated hook, and drawing out of the sea, of broth the fattest of heave-shoulders and the fleshiest of wave-breasts. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
The consecrated candle shed a yellowish light upon her face impearled with the sweat of her last struggle and death agony. Komediantka. English
An eternity ago she had met Father Cuthbert here, when he was a novice, not yet fully consecrated to the Church. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
His only known expenditures were for the consecrated bread, the clothing of his wife and daughter, the hire of their chairs in church, the wages of la Grand Nanon, the tinning of the saucepans, lights, taxes, repairs on his buildings, and the costs of his various industries. Eug�nie Grandet
In it the participants share in the redemptive death and resurrection of Christ through sacramental communion with his body and blood, signified by consuming consecrated bread and wine.
He therefore persuaded the primate of Numidia to consecrate Augustine to be coadjutor bishop of Hippo.
This battlefield is consecrated to the memory of soldiers who died here.
He was the first archbishop to insist on receiving written professions of obedience from the bishops whom he consecrated.
I think, "continued he, addressing himself particularly to me," you informed me that the husband of poor Lavinia lies buried in yonder church-yard; and perhaps the very tomb which now glistens by the moonbeam is the one which consecrates his memory! Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
Time consecrates: what is gray with age becomes religion.
The sprinkler is filled with consecrated water from the baptismal font, which is drizzled onto the initiate during the ritual.
It's about a candidate letting her light shine in a way that consecrates their faith, or non-faith as it may be, as being in tune and in touch with the values of the voters. Burns Strider: Manning Up to Sharing Our Testimony as Democrats
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow - this ground.
Many believed that, having ventured to enter a consecrated building, contrary to his paction with the Evil One, he had been bodily carried off while on his return to his cottage; but most are of opinion that he only disappeared for a season, and continues to be seen from time to time among the hills. The Black Dwarf
Cellach, duly elected coarb of Patrick, and consecrated bishop, had no doubt been able to organize the diocese of Armagh in accordance with the St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh
I especially like the distinction between the "avowed" state, whether in the form of marriage or consecrated life, and the charism of freedom that characterizes the state of those who are called to singlehood. Archive 2005-08-01
If the past congregation approves of the temple's donation, Samuels said the institute would send a rabbi to Brookhaven to deconsecrate the building, after which the temple would no longer be considered an operational Jewish temple. Undefined
Appointed Vicar Apostolic of New France, with the title of Bishop of Petrea, Laval was consecrated on 8 Dec., 1658, by the papal nuncio Piccolomini in the abbatical church of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Suppose this point then settled, for anything would be remarkable and highly rememberable which comes near to a common familiar fraction of so vast a period in human affairs as a millennium [a term consecrated to our Christian ears, (1) by its use in the Apocalypse; (2) by its symbolic use in representing the long Sabbath of rest from sin and misery, and finally (3) even to the profane ear by the fact of its being the largest period which we employ in our historical estimates]. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
An oracle is a shrine or temple sanctuary consecrated to the worship and consultation of a prophetic god.
During the Atlanta campaign we were supplied by our regular commissaries with all sorts of patent compounds, such as desiccated vegetables, and concentrated milk, meat-biscuit, and sausages, but somehow the men preferred the simpler and more familiar forms of food, and usually styled these "desecrated vegetables and consecrated milk. Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
The point of the elevation was to allow the faithful to adore the already consecrated Host.
Williamson was consecrated a bishop by the pope's Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), an ultraconservative splinter group.
Or shall it be a quarter of heaven itself - an hypethral temple, consecrated to the service of the gods?
He cleansed the water, scattered consecrated herbs, and chanted ancient incantations.
Although these idealized monuments were consecrated to the dead, they addressed the living.
The location of the church, which was consecrated in 1488, had been a mystery, but a geophysical survey revealed possible lines of foundations and it was in the area adjacent to the present house, where the excavation took place.
An altar was set after another youth back, will happy seed consecrate above, pray piously everyday.
Middle English, from past participle of sacren to consecrate, from Anglo-French sacrer, from Latin sacrare, from sacr-, sacer sacred; akin to Latin sancire to make sacred, Hittite šaklāi- rite LDS Temple Ceremony goes Prime Time. | Mind on Fire
It differs from the eulogia mentioned above, because it is not a part of the oblation from which the particle to be consecrated in the Mass is selected, but rather is common bread which receives a special benediction. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
A night of memories and sighs" he might "consecrate" to his lost lady love, as Landor did to Rose Aylmer. The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot
Instead, I have found, that Catholic priests are rather alacritous in their willingness to allow me to score a stack of freshly consecrated hosts for my Body of Christ Soufflé. Archive 2008-03-01
In Spain, the dance is done to reverence the Blessed Sacrament, a consecrated wafer used in Communion.
Samboo's unconsecrated grave at Sunderland Point is often visited by schoolchildren.
But we have now “boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the vail, that is to say, his flesh: and having an high priest over the house of God, we may draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith,” Heb. x. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
He was consecrated Bishop of Chester on 14 November 1668.
As a Bishop he pontificated that night and consecrated the apostles bishops so they might say the Mass with him.
When James Bell, the recently consecrated Bishop of Knaresborough was an honorary Canon of Ripon Cathedral he occupied the stall of St Hilda.
She knows that this assumption of spiritual beadledom is mere affectation, and that other minds have as much right to their own boundary lines as she claims for herself; but it seems to her pretty to assume that woman generally is the consecrated beadle of thought and morality, and that she, of all women, is most specially consecrated. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)
In its first room were the lamp-stand, the table and the consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place.
Its interior is characterized by a great central peperino arch with lacunars and rosettes, introducing to the high altar consecrated to the Virgin, whose icon is painted on a piece of slate.
It was at one time the custom to consecrate church bells in the expectation that their chimes would drive away thunderstorms and ensure safety from lightning.
In 754 Pope Stephen II personally went to Ponthion to consecrate his power through the highly symbolical act of ceremonially anointing Pippin as king.
Last October, Andres Serrano's photographs were exhibited in the deconsecrated church of Santa Marta.
What he calls not innate, but connatural qualities of the human character, was, during the latter part of the last century, entirely rejected; but of late there appears a tendency to return to the notion consecrated by antiquity.
Abune Hangin 'Shaw, in the bield o' the Black Hill, there's a bit enclosed grund wi 'an iron yett; and it seems, in the auld days, that was the kirkyaird o' Ba'weary, and consecrated by the Papists before the blessed licht shone upon the kingdom. Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories
A DEVELOPER'S £750,000 gamble to transform a deconsecrated and empty church in York's city centre into a classy restaurant or café bar could start to pay off next week.
Before they went to visit certain of the saints of Ireland, Colum-cille (Saint Columba) and Bauheen, his cousin, betook themselves to Armagh, that place that was consecrated by Saint Patrick and in which the bell that he blessed was still rung. St Patrick's Day
It was reassuring to be among people who came in for some quiet minutes, their heads bowed toward the consecrated bread hidden beyond the altar that in some mysterious way had been made one with Christ during the Mass.
The Bishop said that night while Rachel was singing that if the world of sinful, diseased, depraved, lost humanity could only have the gospel preached to it by consecrated prima donnas and professional tenors and altos and bassos, he believed it would hasten the coming of the Kingdom quicker than any other one force. In His Steps
In 1812 the Cortes of Cadiz drew up a constitution which consecrated the dogma of the sovereignty of the nation.
Many, perhaps most, seminarians who believe they are being called to priesthood do not have a charism for celibacy - a graced aptitude for consecrated single life.
All three, and particu - larly Bruno, extend Ficino's anthropocentrism into cosmic dimensions, as they unfold a universe to be explored and understood through the unfettered inter - rogation of nature rather than by a perusal of tradi - tional authors — an ideal consecrated by Bruno's martyrdom. PLATONISM IN THE RENAISSANCE
The bells tolled as parishioners carrying candles filed out through the 13th-century doorway of St Ninian's church last night to reconsecrate the ground in which the unfortunate woman's remains once lay.
To take a term consecrated by centuries of usage and to attach a brand-new meaning to it, of which those who through the ages had it constantly on their lips never dreamed, is to say the least extremely misleading. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
The King had commissioned a gold wreath that he wished to consecrate to the gods.
Peter Borre, co-chairman of the Council of Parishes, which formed to fight church closings, anticipated the Cardinal's decision and said the vigils will continue and the decision will be appealed to the Vatican, which has already reversed the decisions by some U.S. bishops to deconsecrate churches. KansasCity.com: Front Page
Others think that this proverb admonisheth the guests to forget everything that is spoken or done in company; and agreeably to this, the ancients used to consecrate forgetfulness with a ferula to Bacchus, thereby intimating that we should either not remember any irregularity committed in mirth and company, or apply a gentle and childish correction to the faults. Symposiacs
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living; way, which he hath consecrated for us through the vail, that is to say, his flesh; and having a high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries.
Organization was haphazard; there were far too few bishops, and some were invalidly consecrated.
Which leaves the visitor free to form opinions free of the critical and cultural pressure that comes with looking at consecrated classic or modish modern art.

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