Misconsecrate

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 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."

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"[…] 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."

Etymology

From mis- + consecrate.

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