0 present participle of consecrate --
1 to officially make something holy and able to be used for religious ceremonies: --
If not consecrated episcopally, they have not the power to exercise those functions of consecrating oils, etc., which are referred to the episcopal order only analogously.
As archbishop, he built and adorned his cathedral as well as other churches, and was active in consecrating bishops.
She lived a righteous life, consecrating herself to helping poor and needy people.
To preserve apostolic succession the rite of consecrating him a bishop had to be performed by someone who was already a bishop.
Abstinence in general can be considered a virtue only when it serves the purpose of consecrating a life to a higher purpose.
There was a special rite for dedicating churches and also for consecrating altars, in which blessed water and the sign of the cross were used.
As churches discontinued consecrating women as deaconesses, these duties largely fell to the nuns and to the priests' wives.
She had 250 female followers, who passed the time doing manual labor and assigning their hands to card wool, and consecrating their tongues with hymns.
