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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.

or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention. Let us think with consideration. Sir P. Sidney. Consideration, like an angel, came. Shak.

or some end or purpose; conspiracy. [R.] As soon as it was day, certain Jews made a conspiration. Udall. In our natural body every part has a nacassary sympathy with every other, and all together form, by their harmonious onspiration, a healthy whole. Sir W. Hamilton.

The act of ravishing; violation; defilement. Bp. Hall.

Proportionate mixture or combination. "Contemperation of light and shade." Boyle.

us union. [Obs.] That person of his [George Herbert], which afforded so unusual a contesseration of elegancies. Oley.

The act of coöperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor. Not holpen by the coöperation of angels. Bacon.

A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.

orating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of information.

The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting.

Cure; healing. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Act of gilding. [Obs.]

ed token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc.

The removal or absence of color. Ferrand.

Act of deconcentrating. [R.]

way of embellishment; ornament. The hall was celebrated for . . . the richness of its decoration. Motley.

= Memorial Day. [U. S.]

Disgrace; dishonor. [Obs.] Bailey.

Disfiguration; mutilation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A burning up; conflagration. "Innumerable deluges and deflagrations." Bp. Pearson.