consecrating
present participle ofconsecrate
consecrate
verb[T]
uk/ˈkɒn.sɪ.kreɪt/us/ˈkɑːn.sə.kreɪt/toofficiallymake somethingholyandableto be used forreligiousceremonies:
The newcathedralwascompletedand consecrated in 2002.
toofficiallygive someone thetitleofbishopin theChristianChurchin areligiousceremony
Religious practices
- agarbatti
- allocution
- anoint
- anointment
- baptize
- faith healing
- flagellate
- flagellation
- fleishig
- genuflect
- proselyte
- proselytize
- prostration
- purdah
- rebaptize
- reborn
- sanctify
- televangelism
- unbaptized
- unction
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Religious ceremonies & prayers
Examplesofconsecrating
consecrating
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
These associations with purity, with caves, and with the underworld undergird the interpretation of the pit asconsecratinga sacred space.
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The performing arts archive represents the officially sanctioned collecting, cataloguing, preserving, andconsecratingof traces of past performances.
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It is merelyconsecrating, it is merely regularising, that which cannot be reversed, that which has come to be the practice, and it is acknowledging powers which already exist.
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Theconsecratingminister must be one who is correctly ordained, through that shepherd.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Write the names and signs on them in ink beforeconsecratingthem and wash it off immediately after.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Inconsecratinga home, there are several services that take place.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.On the altar, too, is a phial of oil to represent his aspiration, and forconsecratingitems to his intent.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She had 250 female followers, who passed the time doing manual labor and assigning their hands to card wool, andconsecratingtheir tongues with hymns.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As churches discontinuedconsecratingwomen as deaconesses, these duties largely fell to the nuns and to the priests' wives.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There was a special rite for dedicating churches and also forconsecratingaltars, in which blessed water and the sign of the cross were used.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Abstinence in general can be considered a virtue only when it serves the purpose ofconsecratinga life to a higher purpose.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To preserve apostolic succession the rite ofconsecratinghim a bishop had to be performed by someone who was already a bishop.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She lived a righteous life,consecratingherself to helping poor and needy people.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As archbishop, he built and adorned his cathedral as well as other churches, and was active inconsecratingbishops.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If not consecrated episcopally, they have not the power to exercise those functions ofconsecratingoils, etc., which are referred to the episcopal order only analogously.
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- nothing-ventured-nothing-gained
- not-hold-a-candle-to
- not hold a candle to someone/something
- not-hold-with
- not hold with something
- not hold with sth
- not-hold-with-sth
- notice
- noticeable
- noticeable change
- noticeable difference
- noticeable impact
- noticeable improvement
- noticeable increase
- noticeable lack
- noticeably
- notice account
- notice-account
- noticeboard
- noticed
- notice of appeal
- notice of deficiency
- notice-of-deficiency
- notice of intent
- notice of intention