Misconsecrate
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 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."
Example
More examples"[…] 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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