单词 | reconsecrate |
释义 | reconsecratev. transitive. To consecrate again. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > consecration > reconsecration > perform reconsecration [verb (transitive)] reconsecrate1611 rededicate1611 rehallow1632 resanctify1634 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Resacrer, to reconsecrate. 1646 W. Prynne Canterburies Doome 113 This popish Prelate succeeding Mountaine in the Bishoprick of London suspended this new repaired Church for a time from all Divine service, Sermons, and Sacraments, till it was re-consecrated by himself. a1711 T. Ken Sion i, in Wks. (1721) IV. 326 Should we to God re-consecrate the mind [etc.]. 1733 D. Neal Hist. Puritans II. 221 He interdicted the church and shut up the doors, till it should be reconsecrated. 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion iv. 181 This scheme..would re-consecrate our Wells To good Saint Fillan and to fair Saint Anne. View more context for this quotation 1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 328 Canst thou..reconsecrate the heart, Rededicate the temple? 1864 J. H. Newman Apologia 386 Your passions, and your affections,..must all be bathed in a new element, and reconsecrated to your Maker. 1904 H. James Golden Bowl II. xxxv. 216 This by itself justified her private motive and reconsecrated her diplomacy. 1942 Jrnl. Warburg & Courtauld Inst. 5 16 The church of the Trinity at Milan built in 1036, was reconsecrated in 1099 to the Holy Sepulchre in memory of the re-conquest of the Holy City. 1988 D. Hogan Lebanon Lodge 4 The newly extended Adelaide Road synagogue was reconsecrated. 2007 Monterey County (California) Herald (Nexis) 11 Sept. So here it is, 9/11 again, six years after the 9/11. And I feel compelled to obsess about it to relive the horror, reconsecrate the heroes. Derivatives reconseˈcration n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > consecration > reconsecration > [noun] rededication1637 reconsecration1646 1646 W. Prynne Canterburies Doome 120 God must lose his publick worship in this Church, and the whole Parish the use of it..rather then this Prelate not enjoy his popish ends & exorbitant fees for the re-consecration of it. 1763 R. Burn Eccl. Law I. 237 A church, once consecrated, may not be consecrated again..unless they be polluted by the shedding of blood; and in that case the canon supposes a reconsecration. 1847 W. Maskell Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae III. p. cxlviii There were some difficulties in deciding whether, if the altar was destroyed or removed, a reconsecration of the church would be required. 1897 H. James James Russell Lowell in Libr. World's Best Lit. XVI. 9236 His two finest addresses..connect themselves with the reconsecration, late in life, of his eloquence. 1973 PMLA 88 444 Mutual images of offering, death, and rebirth pave the way for the connection between Septimus' death and Clarissa's reconsecration to life. 1999 C. Thubron In Siberia (2000) vi. 161 Just to the east, above the onion domes, and dunce-cap spires of the Epiphany Cathedral, a host of fretted crosses announce reconsecration. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1611 |
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