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To consecrate anew or again.

To consecrate. [Obs.]

r of some related carbohydrate) with some base, after the analogy of a salt; as, sodium sucrate.

To render not sacred; to deprive of sanctity; to desecrate. [Obs.] South.

ex finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.

One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. Hume.

To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize. And the city shall be accursed. Josh. vi. 17. Thro' you, my life will be accurst. Tennyson.

The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.

e relating to abstract truth rather than to practical matters. The first aphorism of Hippocrates is, "Life is short, and the art is long." Fleming.

To sanctify; to consecrate.

To curse; to execrate. Beshrew me, but I love her heartily. Shak.

To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. Gen. ii. 3.

Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy. O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton.

Burial ground, a piece of ground selected and set apart for a place of buriials, and consecrated to such use by religious ceremonies. -- Burial place, any place where burials are made. -- Burial service. (a) The religious service performed at the interment of the dead; a funeral service. (b) That portion of a liturgy…

A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate.

n, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching. Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing. Addison.

h, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis.

for the reception and exhibition of the tripod which he received as a prize. Those of Lysicrates and Thrasyllus are still to be seen at Athens.

Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc.

The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil. Chrismation or cross-signing with ointment, was used in baptism. Jer. Taylor.