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Definition of Deconsecrate
1. Verb. Remove the consecration from a person or an object.
Generic synonyms: Change By Reversal, Reverse, Turn
Antonyms: Consecrate
Definition of Deconsecrate
1. v. t. To deprive of sacredness; to secularize.
Definition of Deconsecrate
1. Verb. To remove the consecration from a church or similar building ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deconsecrate
1. [v -CRATED, -CRATING, -CRATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deconsecrate
Literary usage of Deconsecrate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... exactly as with the Capitol of Korne ; and, though it was possible to sweep
the idols out of the Kaaba, it was not. so easy to deconsecrate the spot, ..."
2. Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography by Frederick William Farrar (1889)
"He would not contend, as they did, with the display and luxury of generals and
statesmen ; he would not deconsecrate the altar by fulness of bread or ..."
3. Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography by Frederic William Farrar (1907)
"He would not contend, as they did, with the display and luxury of generals and
statesmen ; he would not deconsecrate the altar by fulness of bread or ..."
4. A History of the Later Roman Empire: From Arcadius to Irene (395 A.D. to 800 by John Bagnell Bury (1889)
"... to deconsecrate the church that he might pull it down, but the Patriarch
replied, "We have received a form of prayer for the establishment of a church. ..."
5. The Musical World (1870)
"By what mysterious ordinance does a service in the Lady Chapel deconsecrate the
body of the Cathedral ? Let the noble writer explain. ..."
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