Word Meanings - MISCONSECRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To consecrate amiss. "Misconsecrated flags." Bp. Hall.

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• AMISSIBILITY
  The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam.
• MISCONSECRATION
  Wrong consecration.
• FLAGSHIP
  The vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.
• AMISSION
  Deprivation; loss. Sir T. Browne.
• MISCONSECRATE
  To consecrate amiss. "Misconsecrated flags." Bp. Hall.
• AMISSIBLE
  Liable to be lost.
• FLAGSTAFF
  A staff on which a flag is hoisted.
• FLAGSTONE
  A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.
• CONSECRATER
  Consecrator.
• CONSECRATE
  Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon.
• AMISS
  Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. What error drives our eyes and ears amiss Shak. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. To take amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at'
• DECONSECRATE
  To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n.
• BLACK FLAGS
  An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their
• DISCONSECRATE
  To deprive of consecration or sacredness.
• EXTRAMISSION
  A sending out; emission. Sir T. Browne.
• UNCONSECRATE
  To render not sacred; to deprive of sanctity; to desecrate. South.
• RECONSECRATE
  To consecrate anew or again.
• INAMISSIBLE
  Incapable of being lost. Hammond. -- In`a*mis"si*ble*ness, n.