Consecrate Synonyms and Antonyms

kŏnsĭ-krāt
To set apart
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. dedicate
  2. devote
  3. give
  4. ordain
  5. apply
  6. hallow
  7. ordinate
  8. commit
  9. order
Solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high purpose
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. consecrated
  2. dedicated
To dedicate solemnly to a service or goal.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. devote

Words Related to Consecrate

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. religion
  2. rededicated
  3. re-dedicated
  4. reconsecrated
  5. consecration
  6. excommunicate

Consecrate Sentence Examples

  • The little company of seven determined to consecrate their union by vows.

  • But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.

  • Similarly William of Paris held that degradation deprived a priest of power to consecrate.

  • The Lombard sect went farther in (3) and (4), holding that no one in mortal sin could consecrate the sacrament, and that the Roman Church was the scarlet woman of the Apocalypse, whose precepts ought not to be obeyed, especially those appointing fast-days.

  • He also refused to consecrate Henrys nominees to certain bishoprics and abbacies on the ground that they had not been chosen by free election by their chapters or their monks.

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