Word Meanings - MISCONSECRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To consecrate amiss. "Misconsecrated flags." Bp. Hall.
Related words: (words related to MISCONSECRATE)
- AMISSIBILITY
The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam. - MISCONSECRATION
Wrong consecration. - FLAGSHIP
The vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant. - AMISSION
Deprivation; loss. Sir T. Browne. - MISCONSECRATE
To consecrate amiss. "Misconsecrated flags." Bp. Hall. - AMISSIBLE
Liable to be lost. - FLAGSTAFF
A staff on which a flag is hoisted. - FLAGSTONE
A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone. - CONSECRATER
Consecrator. - CONSECRATE
Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon. - AMISS
Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. What error drives our eyes and ears amiss Shak. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. To take amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at' - DECONSECRATE
To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n. - BLACK FLAGS
An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their - DISCONSECRATE
To deprive of consecration or sacredness. - EXTRAMISSION
A sending out; emission. Sir T. Browne. - UNCONSECRATE
To render not sacred; to deprive of sanctity; to desecrate. South. - RECONSECRATE
To consecrate anew or again. - INAMISSIBLE
Incapable of being lost. Hammond. -- In`a*mis"si*ble*ness, n.