Word Meanings - CONSECRATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory. The consecratory prayer. Bp. Burnet.

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• DEDICATORY
  Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental. "An epistle dedicatory." Dryden.
• BURNET
  A genus of perennial herbs ; especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. Burnet moth , in England, a handsome moth , with crimson spots on the wings. -- Burnet saxifrage. See Saxifrage. -- Canadian burnet, a marsh plant . --
• PRAYERFUL
  Given to prayer; praying much or often; devotional. "The prayerful man." J. S. Blackie. -- Prayer"ful*ly, adv. -- Prayer"ful*ness, n.
• CONSECRATION
  The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication. Until the days of your consecration be at an end. Lev. viii. 33. Consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemny declares it so. South.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• CONSECRATORY
  Of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory. The consecratory prayer. Bp. Burnet.
• PRAYERLESS
  Not using prayer; habitually neglecting prayer to God; without prayer. "The next time you go prayerless to bed." Baxter. -- Prayer"less*ly, adv. -- Prayer"less*ness, n.
• BURNETTIZE
  To subject to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett.
• PRAYER
  One who prays; a supplicant.
• MISCONSECRATION
  Wrong consecration.
• BIDDING PRAYER
  The prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before the sermon.
• RECONSECRATION
  Renewed consecration.
• SPRAYER
  One that sprays; any instrument for vaporizing and spraying liquids.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach