To consecrate (a person) to an office, as bishop, king, etc. Obsolete.

Obsolete. transitive. To ordain, consecrate; in quot. 1275, to admit to a religious order.

To consecrate (a king, bishop, etc.) to office. Const. with object complement (in passive, subject); also to (an office), to, into (bishop).

transitive. Christian Church. To confer holy orders on; to admit (a candidate) into the ministry of the church by the laying on of hands with prayer…

transitive. To admit to holy orders; to ordain. Formerly also: to admit ceremonially into a monastic order; to admit or institute to a benefice. Obs…

spec. Used as the proper word for the ordination and hallowing of persons to certain offices, as that of bishop, king, queen, etc.

transitive. To set apart religiously for an office or function; to consecrate (a king, etc.). Obsolete.

To install in any ecclesiastical dignity or office; to consecrate. Obsolete.

With object denoting a member of the body. to lay hands (or †hand) onor upon (†also in, to) a person or thing; (in the earliest quots. const…

transitive. To consecrate, dedicate.

transitive. To consecrate to an ecclesiastical office.

transitive. To appoint authoritatively to any office; spec. to appoint or admit to holy orders.

Ecclesiastical. To lay on hands in blessing, or in ordination, confirmation, etc.

slang. To make clerical, to ordain. (With reference to the black coat.)