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Word Meanings - MISCONSECRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To consecrate amiss. "Misconsecrated flags." Bp. Hall.

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  • 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.

 

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