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Definition: CONSECRATING |
CONSECRATINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Consecrate |
Date "CONSECRATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references) |
Crosswords: CONSECRATING |
| English words defined with "CONSECRATING": consecration ♦ Eucharist, Eucharistic liturgy ♦ Holy Sacrament ♦ laying on of hands, Liturgy, Lord's Supper ♦ sacrament of the Eucharist. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CONSECRATING": HOCUS POCUS ♦ IMPOSITION. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Young | What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | IMPOSITION, n. The act of blessing or consecrating by the laying on of hands -- a ceremony common to many ecclesiastical systems, but performed with the frankest sincerity by the sect known as Thieves. "Lo! by the laying on of hands," Say parson, priest and dervise, "We consecrate your cash and lands To ecclesiastical service. No doubt you'll swear till all is blue At such an imposition. Do." Pollo Doncas |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CONSECRATING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "CONSECRATING" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 88.89% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "CONSECRATING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Arabic | مقدس (blessed, divine, hallowing, heavenly, holy, sacramental, sacred, sacrist, sanctifying). (various references) | ||||
German | segnend. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | onsecratingcay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | devotione. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CONSECRATING": deconsecrating, reconsecrating. (additional references) | |
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"CONSECRATING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: conservating. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-g-i-n-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ancestoring, carcinogens, concertinas. | |
-2 letters: accretions, anorectics, carcinogen, coarsening, cocreating, coenacting, concertina, concerting, concreting, constringe, containers, crenations, ignorances, nonascetic, resonating, transgenic. | |
-3 letters: accenting, accentors, accosting, accreting, accretion, anointers, anorectic, anoretics, arccosine, cannister, canonries, cantering, cartoning, categoric, censoring, centrings, cocineras, constrain, container, corseting, crannoges, creations, crenation, escorting, gannister, ignorance, narcotics, necrosing, negations, negatrons, nitrogens, orangiest. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-g-i-n-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: deconsecrating, reconsecrating. | |
+3 letters: anticarcinogens. | |
+4 letters: anticholinergics, countercampaigns. | |
+5 letters: carcinogenicities. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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