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misconsecrate

verb

Etymology

From mis- + consecrate.

  1. derived from cōnsecrātus
  2. inherited from consecraten
  3. prefixed as misconsecrate — “mis + consecrate”

Definitions

  1. To consecrate amiss.

    • […] yet didst thou find it better, to make up the breaches of that altar, which was misconsecrated to the service of thy God, than to make use of that pile, which was idolatrously devoted to a false god.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA