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# consecrate

«consecrate» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make it holy by a religious ceremony** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (consecrates, consecrated, consecrating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To consecrate something is to make it holy by a religious ceremony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consecrate/#m1)

2) (formal) To consecrate a thing or a person is to give it wholly to a purpose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consecrate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the lessons, to make a place, a bond or a deed holy, or to dedicate someone to a cause

### examples

- The bishop will consecrate the new church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consecrate/#x1)
- She consecrated her life to helping the sick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consecrate/#x2)
- Their bond of friendship was consecrated by a ceremony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consecrate/#x3)
- The king consecrated the bridge with a prayer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consecrate/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths.

### 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/school/C/consecrate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.