Sentence examples for consecrates from inspiring English sources
The word "consecrates" is correct in written English
It is typically used in a religious context to denote the act of making something sacred or holy.
Example: "The bishop consecrates the altar during the ceremony."
Alternatives: "Sanctifies" or "Blesses."
verb
Third person singular of consecrate
In its most traditional form, the priest consecrates the bread and wine in a whisper with his back to the congregation: anathema to those who think openness is the spirit of the age.
This is not the same as the Roman Catholic dogma of transubstantiation, which teaches that the substance of the bread and wine is changed into the body and blood of Christ though the properties of the elements remain the same, when the priest consecrates the bread and wine.
(When the short list was first announced, the Daily Star ran a story headlined "BOOBY PRIZE FOR ART". It showed one of Warren's figures with gargantuan buttocks next to a speech bubble that said, "Does my bum look big in this?") The Turner Prize consecrates and desecrates artists at the same time.
But the only Hollywood movie that consecrates our Iraq experience, and that significant numbers of Americans went to see, "The Hurt Locker," is a self-referential film about our pain, not theirs.
In her exaltation of women, she purifies and consecrates their desires.
Conservatives believe that the church leadership, which now consecrates gay and lesbian bishops and permits its priests to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies, ignores biblical teachings about sexuality, in both the Old and New Testaments.
Related: Vatican crisis over bishop who denies the Holocaust It was the second such ceremony in the past month: Faure was consecrated here without papal approval only two weeks ago by the Holocaust-denying British bishop Richard Williamson.
The intelligentsia had nurtured the cult of the persecuted and consecrated its own heroic struggle (a censor's ban was a badge of honour).
But this week he left his redoubt for the first time to attend a meeting of the AU's peace and security council on March 10th at the body's headquarters in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, where his excited aides expect him to be officially consecrated as president by his peers and Mr Gbagbo dumped.Even if that happens, Mr Gbagbo is unlikely to go quietly.
In practice, the political facts, consecrated by referendum, override the legal ones.
This image is of a nation largely united in relief at the Brothers' abrupt exit, proud of its army and police, and scornful of the malingering few, including foreign journalists, who question the wisdom of Egypt's chosen path.The presidential elections set to unfold on May 26th and 27th look sure to consecrate this image.
