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US
/ˈkɑnsəˌkɹeɪtɪd/
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[ UK /kˈɒnsɪkɹˌeɪtɪd/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒnsɪkɹˌeɪtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose
a chapel dedicated to the dead of World War II
the consecrated chapel
a life consecrated to science -
made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use
the sacred mosque
sacred bread and wine
a consecrated church
sanctified wine
sacred elephants
How To Use consecrated 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.
- 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
- 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