consecrate


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Synonyms for consecrate

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Synonyms for consecrate

to make sacred by a religious rite

to give over by or as if by vow to a higher purpose

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Synonyms for consecrate

appoint to a clerical posts

give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause

dedicate to a deity by a vow

render holy by means of religious rites

solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high purpose

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In a special way, we entrust and consecrate to you those individuals and nations which particularly need to be entrusted and consecrated.'
However, there is another problem: according to the Mishnah (Nazir 4:6), only a father can consecrate a minor male as a Nazirite, not the mother.
In his address to the Belgian Parliament, President Marzouki asked the Belgian government to drop the Tunisian debts or convert them into investment projects, in order to consecrate the spirit of co-operation and solidarity between the two countries.
The ceremony, at a sports centre in New Hampshire, was interrupted by several figures including Assistant Bishop David Bena of Albany, New York, who said the Church could not consecrate a bishop who was "dividing the whole Anglican Communion".
When Mary is born, the mother says: "And I consecrate her with all of her posterity under thy protection, O Lord, against Satan!"
He commended, in this regard, the important achievements accomplished by Tunisia in the past two decades, under President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's impulse, which has helped improve the political scene, reinforce pluralism and consecrate respect of Human Rights.
TUNIS, April 8, 2010 (TAP) - Socialist Democrats Movement (MDS) Secretary-General Ismail Boulehia highlighted President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's great interest in the forthcoming municipal elections, as they constitute a new opportunity to consecrate democracy and pluralism.
and in that very change of the words the {new} wording would fail to mean the same thing, he would not consecrate the Sacrament.
But Srbljan, 48, who is the only female firefighter in Oklahoma City, believed she was "called to something in the church." After years of keeping a private vow of celibacy, she asked her local bishop to consecrate her virginity and betrothed herself to Jesus.
The group's director, Stephen Parkinson, said, "If they consecrate women as bishops, that's the end.