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• v  appoint to a clerical posts
• v  give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
  consecrate your life to the church
• v  dedicate to a deity by a vow
• v  render holy by means of religious rites
• a  solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high purpose
  a life consecrated to science
  the consecrated chapel

• Religious leaders of all hues consecrated the new bridge before it was thrown open to the public.
• "We can not consecrate -- we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it... .", said Lincoln at Gettysburg.
• A bishop is consecrated at a time chosen by the diocese.

  Synonym(s)

• ordain
• ordinate
• order
• give
• dedicate
• commit
• devote
• vow
• bless
• hallow
• sanctify
• consecrated
• dedicated

  Antonym(s)

• desecrate
• desecrated