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▪ I. unˈconsecrate, v.
[un-2 3.]
trans. To render unconsecrated; to desecrate or profane.
1598Florio, Disconsecrare, to degrade, to profane, to vnconsecrate. a1660Hammond Serm., 2 Cor. vii. 1 (1664) 86 Heaven must be unconsecrated by such violence. 1667South Serm., Ps. lxxxvii. 2 (1715) I. 258 The Sins of Israel had even unconsecrated and prophaned that Sacred Edifice. 1711Brit. Apollo III. No. 143. 3/1 To Unconsecrate his Dust. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 450, I should apprehend it might by natural effect prove an unconsecrating the place with respect to myself.
▪ II. unˈconsecrate, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b.]
= next.
1529More Dyaloge i. xiv. Wks. 134/2 Diuers times she was houseled..with an host vnconsecrate. Ibid. ii. 193/1 If we worshippe an host in the masse which percase the neglygence or malice of some lewde priest hath left vnconsecrat. 1607G. Wilkins Miseries Enforced Marr. K iij b, Here wil I seale the children that are born, From wombes vnconsecrate. 1673[R. Leigh] Transp. Reh. 13 Except only this unconsecrate Lay-Clergy. 1850J. Martineau Misc. (1852) 330 The heroes of modern fiction and biography are unconsecrate according to the measure of theology. |