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# consecrate

«consecrate» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **make holy, set apart as sacred** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

make holy, set apart as sacred

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To make something holy, or set it apart for God, often by a ceremony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/consecrate/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today it means making something holy by a religious ceremony. The second sentence uses it for making a deed holy or sacred, which today's English would not say.

### examples

- And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded thee; seven days shalt thou consecrate them. (Torah EXO.29.35, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/consecrate/#x1)
- Your sister Anastasia is the most beautiful and most innocent of maidens, and she shall consecrate the deed. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/consecrate/#x2)
- And they shall eat those things wherewith atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy. (Torah EXO.29.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/consecrate/#x3)

### primary record

consecrate

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 9 (Torah 8, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.0 (Torah alone 18.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [All the days that he consecrateth himself unto the LORD he shall not come near to a dead body.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.226/)
- [And Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.515/)
- [I have commanded My consecrated ones, yea, I have called My mighty ones for mine anger, even My proudly exulting ones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.277/)
- [Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; so shall they consecrate it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1171/)
- [Who then offereth willingly to consecrate himself this day unto the LORD?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.1002/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «consecrate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/consecrate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.