1. consecrate - Adjective
2. consecrate - Verb
Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.
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.
To set apart to a sacred office; as, to consecrate a bishop.
To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor.
To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time.
Source: Webster's dictionaryEvery mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty. Giuseppe Mazzini
You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair. Taisen Deshimaru
I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it. Virginia Woolf
There is no happiness in life and there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home. Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God. Hans Urs von Balthasar
He who aspires to master the art of expression must first of all consecrate himself completely to some great cause. Eugene V. Debs