consecrate
verb (used with object)
to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity.
had consecrated
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past perfectof consecrate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He cited the examples of two traditionalist bishops he had consecrated "despite the fact that I have been ordaining women to the priesthood since I first became Bishop for Stepney in 1996".
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2015
His own family’s blood had consecrated the Union, and he would not allow anything or anyone—he thought in just these apocalyptic terms—to threaten the thing he held dearest.
From Time ● Feb. 15, 2014
That the Pope had made the visit anyway, noted the official, signified that Paul had "consecrated the Vatican II decree on ecumenism, which finally recognized 'the others' as churches in their own right."
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been graduated with high honours at the Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, and had consecrated his life to medical missionary work in China, where his large abilities promptly won him wide influence.
From The Whole Armour of God by John Henry Jowett
As the monastic system was increased, and especially after the mendicant orders had consecrated mendicancy, the evil assumed gigantic dimensions.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
