consecrate
verb (used with object)
to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity.
has consecrated
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present perfectof consecrate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Now Ms. Reid works at the church as a pastoral associate and distributes the bread to others at Mass after the priest has consecrated it.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2021
At first, Gerard is obdurate, refusing to confess to trumped-up charges of treason, or even believe that the party to which he has consecrated his life is behind his bewildering plight.
From Time Magazine Archive
Death has consecrated thy prediction, but it is yet unfulfilled.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
The editor has consecrated all his learning and all his industry to his labor of love; and, by all accounts, the previous copies needed a reviser as careful and as competent as Mr. Goold.
From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various
Art has consecrated it in a thousand ways.
