a. - Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.
v. t. - To make, or declare to be, sacred; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service or worship of God; as, to consecrate a church; to give (one's self) unreservedly, as to the service of God.
v. t. - To set apart to a sacred office; as, to consecrate a bishop.
v. t. - To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor.
v. t. - To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time.