misconsecrate

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verb

To consecrate amiss.

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Meanings

verbmisconsecrate (third-person singular simple present misconsecrates, present participle misconsecrating, simple past and past participle misconsecrated)

present singular third person misconsecrates · participle present misconsecrating · participle past misconsecrated · past misconsecrated

  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.

    1612–1634, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=I to VIII), London, →OCLC

Origin

From mis- + consecrate.

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APA

misconsecrate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misconsecrate

MLA

“misconsecrate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misconsecrate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misconsecrate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misconsecrate.

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