consecrer
Dictionary entries
- Entry →consecro, consecrare, consecravi, consecratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Religion
consecrate/dedicate, set apart; hallow, sanctify; deify; curse; vow to a god;
sg. pres. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
- L
Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...velut rerum humanarum maximum, cum grati videri volunt, consecrant. Denique eo mores redacti sunt ut paupertas maledicto probroque..." - T
Liber XXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...obviam Hannibali, exornate urbem diemque adventus eius consecrate, ut hunc triumphum de cive vestro spectetis." Haec vociferanti..." - P
Germania
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...adsimulare ex magnitudine caelestium arbitrantur: lucos ac nemora consecrant deorumque nominibus appellant secretum illud, quod sola reverentia vident..."