behallow

present singular third person behallows · participle present behallowing · participle past behallowed · past behallowed

1. transitiveTo make holy; consecrate; sanctify; hallow completely.

   Kings are "behallowed" as well as bishops; […]

   1842 April 28, “The Anglo-Saxon Confessions”, in The Church of England Quarterly Review, volume 11, article 4, page 343

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   [...] bishops and servants of God — the "senatores natu majores," the elders and chiefs of the people — caused his eldest son, Egfurth, to be behallowed (which is the Saxon term used for the consecration of a bishop) as king of Mercia.

   1835, William Henry C. Grey, The Lords and the People