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Example sentences for "consecrated"

Lexicographically close words:
conscription; conscriptions; conscripts; conscyence; consecrate; consecrates; consecrating; consecration; consecrations; consecution
  1. By means whereof they were blessed and consecrated for the flesh and bones of this idoll.

  2. At the same time the palm branches which had been consecrated on Palm Sunday, and sticks which had been charred in the fire and consecrated on Good Friday, were also stuck up in the fields.

  3. He also consecrated the sacred emetics (the button-snake root and the cassina or black-drink) by pouring a little of them into the fire.

  4. Sometimes instead of the consecrated bonfire a profane fire used to be kindled on Easter Eve.

  5. When they have been expelled, a consecrated thread of cotton is stretched round the palace to keep them out.

  6. Arician Grove said to be first consecrated to her by Manius Egerius, i.

  7. The ashes of the Easter bonfire, together with the ashes of the consecrated palm-branches, are mixed with the seed at sowing.

  8. As soon as this is done a consecrated rope is fastened round the circuit of the city walls to prevent the banished demons from returning.

  9. A wooden figure called Judas is sometimes burned in the consecrated bonfire.

  10. The centripetal force of feudalism gained the upper hand, and the song of the great empire, of the great deeds of loyal prowess, was consecrated in the feudal monarchy.

  11. It seems almost as if the woman were a mere shrine, a mysterious receptacle of the ineffable, a grail cup, a consecrated wafer, but not the ineffable itself.

  12. From Ruelle and its consecrated grave they wandered on to Malmaison.

  13. Napoleon the eagles consecrated by the priests at the altar that stood before the emperor.

  14. Bishop Seabnry was consecrated by the Scotch non-juring bishops, Nov.

  15. Early Christians took possession of the temple and consecrated it to the memory of Pope Urbanus, the martyr, whose remains were buried close by, in the crypta magna of the Catacombs of Prætextatus.

  16. The small oratory at the southern end of the crypt seems to have been consecrated exclusively to the memory of its first occupant, the ex-consul.

  17. Her jewels were offered to Ceres and Proserpina; and the land which she had owned between the Via Appia and the valley of the Almo was covered with memorial buildings, and also consecrated to the gods.

  18. It seems that the advance fort of Johannipolis was finished and consecrated by Pope John soon after the naval battle of Cape Circeo (A.

  19. At the bottom of everything was the fact that from his earliest childhood he had looked upon the room as consecrated to death; had consequently feared it; had, he recalled, always hurried past the disused corridor leading in its direction.

  20. To her over-acute senses the thought of Blackburn in that room, so often consecrated to the formula of death, suggested a special and unaccountable menace.

  21. Some seventy-five miles farther down the Potomac is another shrine--the grave of Washington--and it is not his countrymen alone who bare their heads in honor of the great man who rests in the consecrated ground.

  22. Nothing that is immoral becomes moral because it has been done under a legal contract, or consecrated by a rite.

  23. The magic also could be broken by other mixtures, by cast balls, and by magically consecrated weapons.

  24. She handed over the consecrated water she had brought with her, to the midwife, calling upon her in strong language, to deliver the woman and baptize the child.

  25. But if you see the priests at a distance coming towards you with the consecrated host, use all caution and turn into a byway, or go into a house.

  26. But when the Herr von Andlaw raised the consecrated cup, then all knelt down who were standing by me, I did the same, and said a Paternoster.

  27. Certain officers in the sixteenth century caused every prisoner to be hanged upon whom were found jagged or iron-coated balls, "which were consecrated for the sake of a soul.

  28. Thus the lawyer, when consecrated as Justice of the Supreme Court, has become the High Priest of our political faith.

  29. But Americans, as a nation, are consecrated to the realization of a group of ideas; and ideas to be fruitful must square both with the facts to which they are applied and with one another.

  30. American energy had been consecrated to economic development.

  31. The kingdom of Prester John, however, lived on in fables, of which the best known relates how the Holy Grail, the cup consecrated by Christ at the Last Supper, had withdrawn from the sinful West and found refuge in this distant land.

  32. The bodies of those who died intestate, as of those unconfessed, were denied burial in consecrated ground; all questions concerning wills were heard in the ecclesiastical courts.

  33. His reception by the Abbey of Cluny was a great strength to his cause, and he there consecrated the new church, which had been forty years in building and was larger than any church yet erected in France.

  34. They were well received, and Christian of Oliva was consecrated bishop.

  35. Neither Pope could be consecrated or could remain in Rome: both appealed by legates and letters for the recognition of Christendom.

  36. Thus there were three persons in Rome who had been consecrated to the papal office.

  37. The majority of the Cardinals elected the papal Chancellor Roland who had defied Frederick at Besançon, and who would be likely to maintain Hadrian's high claims: he was afterwards consecrated as Alexander III.

  38. Lanfranc held the position that the consecrated elements are "ineffably, incomprehensibly, wonderfully by the operation of power from on high, turned into the essence of the Lord's Body.

  39. Within a month he was ordained priest; but another month or more elapsed before he was consecrated bishop.

  40. According to this view, Christ is present in the consecrated elements of the sacrament really but spiritually.

  41. History and romance have consecrated the brown camlet overcoat, and trunks of the same material worn by Louis XI.

  42. In the same revelation they are commanded to divide the consecrated property between the individuals of the firm, which each separately were to manage as stewards.

  43. Previous to this (1833), a revelation was received to build a temple, which was to be done by the consecrated funds, which were under the control of the firm.

  44. What it contained I know not, though I suspect it is consecrated to the rites of the Wakoe religion.

  45. The whole nation had been consecrated to the worship of One God, a personal God, who had, at least where Israel was concerned, no hint of philosophic Apathy.

  46. We know not whether to envy more--the poet the object of his admiration, or that object the monument which has been consecrated to his nobleness.

  47. They tell us truly that all beauty is God's stamp, and that all beauty ought to be consecrated to his service.

  48. Before him also, stood the generous foundress and the untiring patroness of the beautiful little marble church, consecrated by the good Bishop, not four years gone by.

  49. Now he began to curse anew his fate, for now he began to see that after all he had been finely juggling with himself, and postponing with himself, and in meditative sentimentalities wasting the moments consecrated to instant action.

  50. Ask the men who, with their ocean-wearied feet, consecrated the rock of Plymouth forever!

  51. To-day is St. Maurice's day, consecrated to him and the "Thebaean legion.

  52. At Rome there are certain places consecrated by recollections, but the imagination must be stirred up to enjoy them; here you are actually in a Roman town.

  53. Were the snake himself coiled round that consecrated bauble, the prayers of the devout Father Checkley would unclasp his lithest folds.

  54. It was considered as a consecrated weapon, deposited in the sacristy of St. John of Lateran, which might be drawn forth in solemn and impressive ceremony on every occasion that required it.

  55. This maxim, when examined into, will be found nothing more than a puerile remark, just like many other apothegms consecrated by their antiquity.

  56. The Egyptians went much farther than calling their kings goats; they consecrated a goat in Mendes, and it is even said that they adored him.

  57. As, however, consecrated water from the Nambutiris is taken to a Variyar for its purification, they entertain no scruples about cooking their food there, provided they carry with them the aupasana fire.

  58. Consecrated water and flowers are not given to them directly by the temple priest, but they may stand on the right side of the stone steps leading to the inner shrine.

  59. On your part you hold that laws can be changed and privileges taken away by a "custom consecrated by Royal sanction.

  60. On your contention, therefore, the custom consecrated by these sanctions must override the law itself, and nothing at this time stands between Barlow and the Queen's signature to his Diploma.

  61. Pausanias mentions a lamp of massive gold, consecrated by Callimachus, and endowed with such properties as to endure a year without deterioration.

  62. But the remembrance of the act became popular; and it was consecrated the following year by the first federation solemnized in the Champ de Mars.

  63. The triangle in the palm of the hand is consecrated to Mars; the three lines of which it is formed being regarded by chiromancers as most important, and comprehending the united indications of mind and body.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "consecrated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    altruistic; beatified; blessed; committed; dedicated; devoted; disinterested; divine; hallowed; holy; humble; inviolable; modest; sacred; sainted; saintly; sanctified; selfless; unpretentious; unselfish


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    consecrated bishop; consecrated ground