Consecrate /(?)/

1. Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

   They were assembled in that consecrate place.

imp. & p. p. Consecrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Consecrating

1. To make, or declare to be, sacred; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service or worship of God; as, to consecrate a church; to give (one's self) unreservedly, as to the service of God.

   One day in the week is . . . consecrated to a holy rest.

2. To set apart to a sacred office; as, to consecrate a bishop.

   Thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.

3. To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor.
4. To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time.