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reconsecrate

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con⋅se⋅crate

  [kon-si-kreyt] verb, -crat⋅ed, -crat⋅ing, adjective
Use reconsecrate in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to consecrate a new church building.
2. to make (something) an object of honor or veneration; hallow: a custom consecrated by time.
3. to devote or dedicate to some purpose: a life consecrated to science.
4. to admit or ordain to a sacred office, esp. to the episcopate.
5. to change (bread and wine) into the Eucharist.
–adjective
6. consecrated; sacred.
Origin:
1325–75; ME consecraten < L consecrātus (ptp. of consecrāre), equiv. to con- con- + -secr- (var., in non-initial syllables, of sacer) sacred, holy + -ātus -ate 1

Related forms:
con⋅se⋅crat⋅ed⋅ness, noun
con⋅se⋅cra⋅tor, con⋅se⋅crat⋅er, noun
con⋅se⋅cra⋅to⋅ry  [kon-si-kruh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] , con⋅se⋅cra⋅tive, adjective

Synonyms:
2. sanctify, venerate. 3. See devote.

Antonyms:
1. desecrate.
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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Word Origin & History

consecrate 
1387, from L. consecratus, pp. of consecrare "to make holy, devote," from com- "together" + sacrare (see sacred).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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