CONSECRATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does consecrated mean? 

• CONSECRATED (adjective)
  The adjective CONSECRATED has 2 senses:

1. solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose

2. made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use

  Familiarity information: CONSECRATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSECRATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose

Synonyms:

consecrate; consecrated; dedicated

Context example:

a chapel dedicated to the dead of World War II

Similar:

ordained (invested with ministerial or priestly functions)

votive (dedicated in fulfillment of a vow)

Also:

holy (belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power)

sacred (concerned with religion or religious purposes)

Antonym:

desecrated (treated with disrespect and contempt)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use

Synonyms:

consecrated; sacred; sanctified

Context example:

sanctified wine

Similar:

holy (belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power)

 Context examples 

But as it is, either our union must be consecrated and sealed by marriage, or it cannot exist: practical obstacles oppose themselves to any other plan.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I also became a poet and for one year lived in a paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Then was he anointed and consecrated, and thus was fulfilled what he had heard from the frogs on his way, which had so affected him, that he was to be his Holiness the Pope.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

One morning, being left alone with him a few minutes in the parlour, I ventured to approach the window-recess—which his table, chair, and desk consecrated as a kind of study—and I was going to speak, though not very well knowing in what words to frame my inquiry—for it is at all times difficult to break the ice of reserve glassing over such natures as his—when he saved me the trouble by being the first to commence a dialogue.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Happening to call one evening when Celine did not expect me, I found her out; but it was a warm night, and I was tired with strolling through Paris, so I sat down in her boudoir; happy to breathe the air consecrated so lately by her presence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)