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Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon.

Consecrator.

The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication. Until the days of your consecration be at an end. Lev. viii. 33. Consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemny declares it so. South.

One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes. [Written also consecrater.]

Of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory. The consecratory prayer. Bp. Burnet.

Following as a matter of course. Blount.

Following by consequence; consequent; deducible. [R.] "Consectary impieties." Sir T. Browne.

To follow closely; to endeavor to overtake; to pursue. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

A succession or series of any kind. [Obs.] Sir I. Newton. Month of consecution (Astron.), a month as reckoned from one conjunction of the moon with the sun to another.

; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years.

In a consecutive manner; by way of sequence; successively.

The state or quality of being consecutive.

Agreement; accord. Bentley.

Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties.

Agreement; accord; consent. That traditional consensus of society which we call public opinion. Tylor.

To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur. And Saul was consenting unto his death. Acts. viii. 1. Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in jugdment. Fuller.

Mutual agreement. [R.]

Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.

Consenting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who consents.