Word Meanings - CONSECRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONSECRATE)

• Dedicate
• Devote
• consecrate
• offer
• set
• apportion
• assign
• apply
• separate
• hallow
• set apart
• Embalm
• Conserve
• preserve
• treasure
• store
• enshrine
• Enshrine
• Consecrate
• embalm
• cherish
• Hallow
• venerate
• reverence
• sanctify
• dedicate
• Sanctify
• celebrate
• purify
• justify
• sanction
• ratify

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONSECRATE)

• Scatter
• squander
• dissipate
• disregard
• disesteem
• prostitute
• waste
• betray

Related words: (words related to CONSECRATE)

• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• OFFER
  ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• CONSECRATE
  Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• OFFERER
  One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• CHERISHMENT
  Encouragement; comfort. Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser.
• TREASURER
  One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• SQUANDER
  scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely;
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• TREASURERSHIP
  The office of treasurer.
• ENSHRINE
  To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory. We will enshrine it as holy relic. Massinger.
• ASSIGNABILITY
  The quality of being assignable.
• CELEBRATE
  1. To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High. 2. To honor by solemn rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to keep; as, to celebrate a birthday.
• ASSIGN
  To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors. To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate. Kent. (more info)
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• DECONSECRATE
  To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• REAPPORTIONMENT
  A second or a new apportionment.