1
as in dedicating
to keep or intend for a special purpose
a philanthropist who consecrated his considerable fortune to an array of charitable causes
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as in blessing
to make holy through prayers or ritual
plans to consecrate the altar in the new church with great ceremony
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Recent Examples of consecrating
But yesterday, the group defied Pope Leo XIV by consecrating four bishops without his approval.
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Brittney Melton,
NPR,
2 July 2026
Under the church’s in-house canon law, consecrating a bishop without papal consent incurs an automatic excommunication for both the people administering the consecration and the bishops receiving it.
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ABC News,
1 July 2026
Under church law, consecrating bishops without papal approval is considered a schismatic act and carries automatic excommunication for both the bishops being ordained and the bishop performing the ceremony.
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Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
30 June 2026
Generations of cinephiles promoted a version of Agee’s catechism, consecrating Griffith as film’s supreme technical and aesthetic innovator, an almost Promethean figure.
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Vivian Yee,
New York Times,
20 June 2026
Rob practiced celebrating the Mass by draping a sheet over an ironing board in the basement and consecrating Necco wafers.
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Paul Elie,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
2 July 2026
Under the church’s in-house canon law, consecrating a bishop without papal consent incurs an automatic excommunication for both the people administering the consecration and the bishops receiving it.
—
ABC News,
1 July 2026
Under church law, consecrating bishops without papal approval is considered a schismatic act and carries automatic excommunication for both the bishops being ordained and the bishop performing the ceremony.
—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
30 June 2026
Generations of cinephiles promoted a version of Agee’s catechism, consecrating Griffith as film’s supreme technical and aesthetic innovator, an almost Promethean figure.
—
Vivian Yee,
New York Times,
20 June 2026
Rob practiced celebrating the Mass by draping a sheet over an ironing board in the basement and consecrating Necco wafers.
—
Paul Elie,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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The Declaration of Independence, often perceived as a tax revolt, explicitly mentions taxes only once among its 27 grievances, dedicating just eight words to the issue.
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So dedicating the space entirely to TV-watching is doing it a disservice, says Lindsey Walsh of Lindsey Walsh Interiors.
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By visiting the Basilica and blessing the new tower, the pope follows in the footsteps of Pope Benedict XVI who in 2010 consecrated the Sagrada Familia.
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Jimmy Fallon has been blessing the New York Knicks with good humor for decades.
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Every board meeting is devoting a significant amount of time to the succession question, the source said.
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While his once-promising political career was over, Profumo earned a measure of redemption by devoting the rest of his life to charitable work and in being named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1975.
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To say that the Union was sacred and the touchstone of democracy was to strengthen slavery by sanctifying the state that protected it.
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But far from celebrating or sanctifying the throwing off of English rule, the story’s shocking ending portrays the patriots as a fiendish mob, and casts doubt on the bedrock American faith in prosperity.
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With potentially record-breaking heat coming to Washington, DC on the Fourth of July, people wanting to catch fireworks by saving an early spot on the National Mall will have a lot of waiting to do.
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The sheriff's office says that deputies and workers extricated the man and attempted life-saving measures, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
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“Consecrating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consecrating. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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