Synonyms of the word

consecrate

• v. To declare something holy, or otherwise make it holy.
• adj. Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

apply

• v. (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another).
• v. (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate;…
• v. (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the…
• v. (transitive) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
• v. (transitive) To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
• v. (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of…
• v. (intransitive) To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
• v. (obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
• v. (obsolete) To visit.
• adj. Alternative spelling of appley.

bless

• v. To make something blessed; to confer blessing upon.
• v. To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (oneself).
• v. To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences.
• v. To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.
• v. (obsolete) To wave; to brandish.
• v. (Perl programming, transitive, past tense only blessed) To turn (a reference) into an object.
• v. (archaic) To secure, defend, or preserve from.
• interj. (Britain, informal) Used as an expression of endearment, or (ironically) belittlement.

commit

• v. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; — used with to, unto.
• v. To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
• v. (transitive) to have enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.
• v. To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
• v. To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
• v. To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally…
• v. (computing) To make a set of changes permanent.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
• n. (computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository),…

consecrate

• v. To declare something holy, or otherwise make it holy.
• adj. Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

consecrated

• v. simple past tense and past participle of consecrate.

declare

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make clear, explain, interpret.
• v. (intransitive) To make a declaration.
• v. (transitive) To announce one’s support, choice, opinion, etc.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) For the captain of the batting side to announce the innings complete even though…
• v. (transitive) To announce something formally or officially.
• v. (intransitive, politics) For a constituency in an election to officially announce the result.
• v. (transitive) To affirm or state something emphatically.
• v. (transitive) To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income,…
• v. (transitive) To make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.
• v. (transitive, programming) To explicitly include (a variable) as part of a list of variables, often providing…

dedicate

• v. (transitive) To set apart for a deity or for religious purposes; consecrate.
• v. (transitive) To set apart for a special use.
• v. (transitive) To commit (oneself) to a particular course of thought or action.
• v. (transitive) To address or inscribe (a literary work, for example) to another as a mark of respect or…
• v. (transitive) To open (a building, for example) to public use.
• v. (transitive) To show to the public for the first time.
• adj. (obsolete) Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.

dedicated

• adj. Devoted; loyal; conscientious.
• adj. Used or intended for a particular purpose.
• v. past participle of dedicate.

devote

• v. To give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter.
• v. To consign over; to doom.
• v. To execrate; to curse.
• adj. (obsolete) Devoted; addicted; devout.

employ

• n. The state of being an employee; employment.
• v. To hire (somebody for work or a job).
• v. To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).
• v. To make busy.

enthrone

• v. (transitive) To put on the throne in a formal installation ceremony called enthronement, equivalent to…
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To help a candidate to the succession of a monarchy (as a kingmaker does),…

give

• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
• v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
• v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
• v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
• v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
• v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
• v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
• v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
• v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
• v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
• v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
• v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
• v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
• v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
• v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
• v. To be going on, to be occurring.
• n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

hallow

• n. (obsolete outside set phrases) A saint; a holy person; an apostle.
• v. (transitive) To make holy, to sanctify.
• v. To shout, especially to urge on dogs for hunting.
• n. A shout, cry; a hulloo.
• adj. Alternative spelling of hollow.

holy

• adj. Dedicated to a religious purpose or a god.
• adj. Revered in a religion.
• adj. Perfect or flawless.
• adj. Separated or set apart from (something unto something or someone else).
• adj. Set apart or dedicated for a specific purpose, or for use by a single entity or person.
• adj. (slang) Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
• n. (archaic) A thing that is extremely holy; used almost exclusively in Holy of Holies.

invest

• v. To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
• v. (dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
• v. (obsolete) To put on (clothing).
• v. To envelop, wrap, cover.
• v. To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
• v. To ceremonially install someone in some office.
• v. To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
• v. To formally give (power or authority).
• v. To surround, accompany, or attend.
• v. To lay siege to.
• v. (intransitive) To make investments.
• v. (metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand…
• n. (meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant…

ordain

• v. To prearrange unalterably.
• v. To decree.
• v. To admit into the ministry of a religion, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk,…
• v. To predestine.

ordained

• adj. Established by authority.
• adj. Admitted to the ministry of the church.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of ordain.

order

• n. (uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
• n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
• n. (countable) A command.
• n. (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
• n. (countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion…
• n. (countable) An association of knights.
• n. any group of people with common interests.
• n. (countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual,…
• n. (countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon…
• n. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row;…
• n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry;…
• n. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon…
• n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
• n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier,…
• n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function…
• n. (mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.
• n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
• n. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
• n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partially ordered…
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials…
• v. (transitive) To set in some sort of order.
• v. (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.
• v. (transitive) To issue a command to.
• v. (transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
• v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

ordinate

• n. (mathematics) the value of a coordinate on the vertical (Y) axis.
• v. (transitive) to ordain a priest, or consecrate a bishop.
• v. (transitive) to align a series of objects.
• adj. arranged regularly in rows; orderly; disposed or arranged in an orderly or regular fashion.

sacred

• adj. Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated;…
• adj. Religious; relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular.
• adj. Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics.
• adj. Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence,…
• adj. Not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.
• adj. (followed by the preposition "to") Consecrated; dedicated; devoted.
• adj. (archaic) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of sacre.

sanctify

• v. (transitive) To make holy; to consecrate. Set aside for sacred or ceremonial use.
• v. (transitive) To free from sin; to purify.
• v. (transitive) To make acceptable or useful under religious law or practice.
• v. (transitive) To endorse with religious sanction.

use

• n. The act of using.
• n. (uncountable, followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit.
• n. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
• n. Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
• n. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
• n. (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
• n. (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
• n. (religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.
• n. (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward…
• v. To accustom; to habituate.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To become accustomed (to), to accustom oneself (to).
• v. (transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To behave, act, comport oneself.
• v. (transitive, often with up) To exhaust the supply of; to consume by employing.
• v. (transitive) To exploit.
• v. (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
• v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually do; to be wont to do.
• v. (intransitive, past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to.
• v. (transitive, with auxiliary could) To need; to benefit from.
• v. (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.

utilise

• v. To make useful, to find a practical use for.
• v. To make use of; to use.
• v. To make best use of; to use to its fullest extent, potential, or ability.
• v. To make do with; to use in manner different from that originally intended.

utilize

• v. (US, Canada, Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of utilise.

vest

• n. (now rare) A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.
• n. (now Canada, US) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part…
• n. (Britain) A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
• n. A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports…
• n. Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.
• n. A vestment.
• n. Clothing generally; array; garb.
• v. To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass…
• v. To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed…
• v. To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another;…
• v. (obsolete) To invest; to put.
• v. (law) To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future…
• v. (commonly used of financial arrangements) To become vested, to become permanent.

votive

• adj. dedicated or given in fulfillment of a vow or pledge.
• adj. Of, expressing or symbolizing a vow. Often used to describe thick cylindrical candles found in many churches,…
• n. (music) a hymn or chant dedicated to a particular saint, or to the Virgin Mary.

vow

• n. A solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and…
• n. A declaration or assertion.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To make a vow; to promise.
• v. (transitive) To make a vow regarding (something).
• v. To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act…