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Behallow

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make holy; consecrate; sanctify; hallow completely. transitive

    "[...] 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."

Etymology

From be- + hallow.

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