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English
Etymology
From be- + hallow.
Verb
behallow (third-person singular simple present behallows, present participle behallowing, simple past and past participle behallowed)
- (transitive) To make holy; consecrate; sanctify; hallow completely.
1835, William Henry C. Grey, The Lords and the People: 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.
1842 April, “The Anglo-Saxon Confessions”, in The Church of England Quarterly Review, volume 11, article 4, page 343:Kings are "behallowed" as well as bishops;
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