misconsecrate

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ consecrate.

Verb

misconsecrate (third-person singular simple present misconsecrates, present participle misconsecrating, simple past and past participle misconsecrated)

  1. To consecrate amiss.
    • 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in , volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
      [] 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.