† ensacrev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To consecrate to an ecclesiastical office.
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to lay hands (or hand) on or upon (also in, to)a1400
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a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. cliii. f. clviii/2 I was promoted to the dignytee of Archebysshopp ensacred & receyued in the holy chyrche of Alexandrye.
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