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consecration|kɒnsɪˈkreɪʃən|
In 4–6 -acion.
[ad. L. consecrātiōn-em, n. of action f. consecrāre to consecrate. Cf. F. consecration (13th c.).]
1. The action of consecrating; a setting apart as dedicated to the Deity; dedication with religious rites to a sacred purpose.
1382Wyclif Ex. xxix. 22 It is the wether [1388 ram] of consecracioun. 1460J. Capgrave Chron. 84 Innocent..ordeyned eke the consecration of oyle, with whech men be anoynted at here ende. 1690Norris Beatitudes (1694) I. 165 The Divine Presence is the greatest and most solemn Consecration of any place that can be. 1726Ayliffe Parerg. 194 Consecration, according to a Definition of the Canonists, is a Rite or Ceremony of dedicating and devoting Things to the Service of God with an Application of certain proper Solemnities. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 31 The unhappy women were consecrated to their vile gods and goddesses and to prostitution. This dreadful consecration, yea desecration. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit. Wks. (Bohn) III. 55 Does the consecration of Sunday confess the desecration of the entire week?
attrib.1535Coverdale Lev. viii. 31 Eate it and the bred in y⊇ maunde of the consecracion offeringes.
b. esp. The formal dedication and setting apart, by a bishop, of a church, churchyard, or burial-ground.
By Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xii, called dedication; but in recent times dedication has been employed to denote a less formal kind of consecration of a burial-ground, not having the legal consequences attaching to consecration.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 335 The Bishops assembled for the consecration (as they call it) of the great church of Sainct Andrewes. a1626Bp. Andrewes (title), The form of Consecration of a Church or Chapel (1659). 1727–51Chambers Cycl., The consecration or dedication of a church is an episcopal ceremony. 1866J. M. Dale Clergyman's Legal Handbk. v. 57 Private chapels..are maintained by the persons to whom they belong. They need no consecration. 1873Phillimore Eccl. Law II. 1761 The consecration of churches may be performed indifferently on any day. 1876Blunt & Phillimore Bk. of Ch. Law v. i. 312 The Sentence of Consecration [of a church] is pronounced after the Offertory including the offering represented by the deeds upon the altar, has been made. 1883tr. Pellicia's Polity of Chr. Ch. 147 The dedication of a church was called its consecration. 1891MS. Enrolments of Consecrations, Durham, This Sentence of Consecration was read by me the undersigned John Booth.
c. with a and pl. (Sometimes more or less concr. = Consecrated things.)
1538Bale Thre Lawes 831 Ceremonyall rytes are also commendable, In holy dayes, garmentes, temples, and consecracyons. 1560Bible Lev. viii. 28 These were consecrations for a sweete sauour which were made by fire vnto the Lord. Ibid. viii. 31 The bread that is in the basket of consecrations [so 1611]. Ibid. viii. 33 Vntill the dayes of your consecrations [1611 consecration] bee at an ende.
2. The giving of the sacramental character to the eucharistic elements of bread and wine.
(Variously taken according to the opinion held of the nature of the Eucharist.)
1395Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 41 Where consecracioun or halewinge hath neighid, of the breed is maad Cristis flesh. a1400Apol. Loll. 8 Als oft as a nobil man seiþ it bi twex þe consecracioun & Agnus Dei. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. iv. (1520) 37/1 In olde tyme the consecracyon of the gloryous blood was made in tree vessells. 1564Becon Compar. Lord's Supp. & Mass Epil., Blasphemies against Christ..invocation of dead saints, confection, consecration, application, and oblation of the body and blood of Christ. 1659Pearson Creed (1839) 232 The bread and wine even after consecration leave not their own nature, but remain in their former substance, shape, and form. 1662Bk. Com. Prayer, Communion, Rubric, He shall say the Prayer of Consecration, as followeth. a1699Stillingfl. Serm. II. ii. (R.), The people..are told, that they [priests] can make their God at any time by pronouncing the five words of consecration. 1854Hook Ch. Dict. 247 If it be demanded to what words the consecration of the elements ought to be ascribed, I answer, to the prayer of the faithful offered by the priest, and to the words of institution repeated by him. 1885Catholic Dict. 216/1 The form for the consecration of the bread in the Roman Missal is ‘Hoc est enim corpus meum.’
3. Ordination to a sacred office: spec. the action or religious ceremony of ordaining a bishop.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls.) VI. 115 Theodorus þe archebisshop com into Kent..in þe secounde ȝere of his consecracioun. 1513More Rich. III, Wks. 66/2, The consecracion of a bishop. 1552Bk. Com. Prayer, Order Consecr. Bps. Rubr., Then shall the Archbishop demand the kings mandate for the consecration. 1704Nelson Fest. & Fasts (1739) 479 To confirm the Elections and Consecrations of all Bishops in their Provinces. 1882J. H. Blunt Ref. Ch. Eng. II. 37 Spiritual jurisdiction was understood to flow generally from Consecration.
4. Rom. Antiq. Apotheosis, deification; also transf.
1490Caxton Eneydos xxvii. (1890) 98 The obsequyes & consecracyon of anchyses, his olde fader. 1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. ii. 9 The magnificent burning and consecration of Severus. 1751Chambers Cycl. 1837Penny Cycl. VII. 465/1 Consecration is a name given to the apotheosis of the Roman emperors, and coins and medals commemorating these events have the inscription Consecratio.
†b. Loosely applied to canonization. Obs.
1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. v. 167 We see how the Roman Calendar swells with new Consecrations of Saints.
†5. Dedication to destruction; anathematization. Obs. Cf. consecrate v. 7.
1700Tyrrell Hist. Eng. II. 925 He confirmed the Consecration denounced by his Predecessor against Frederic the Emperor.
6. transf. and fig. Dedication or devotion to some cherished purpose or pursuit; also, appropriation to a special purpose.
1781Cowper Retirement 223 'Tis consecration of his heart, soul, time, And every thought that wanders is a crime. 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) I. App. i. 368 Consecrations of tithes, as they were called, had already taken place among the Anglo-Saxons; since the tithes of Thory's lands, in Ropeslai hundred, had been consecrated to a distant church, the abbey of Peterborough.
7. transf. and fig. The action of rendering sacred; hallowing.
1805Wordsw. On Peele Castle, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration and the Poet's dream.
b. Sanction by law, custom, or usage. [mod.F.]
1861Maine Anc. Law ii. (1876) 39 Each group of circumstances which is adjudicated upon receives, to employ a Gallicism, a sort of consecration. 1877F. Hall Eng. Adj. in -able 7 Apparently, ‘common usage’ has obtained, with him, such a degree of consecration, that he looks upon any symptom of discontent with it as a going beyond just ‘liberty’. |