consecrate

Bean boots and a hooded sweatshirt, Rabbi Rachel Isaacs paused to consecrate the ice beneath her feet before she commandeered it for a higher purpose.

"Never consecrate a bishop without permission. Sacraments can be sacrificed, but faith cannot be sacrificed! Remember! Remember!"

“Your bishops and priests consecrate and bless the tanks and rockets that bomb our peaceful cities.”

But even if Biden and McCarthy can consecrate a deal, it’s going to require somewhere around 100 House Democratic votes to pass the chamber—and House Democrats hate, hate, hate this entire process.

In Italy, the three Carracci brothers and Caravaggio, who never saw a dirty foot or head of tousled hair he couldn’t lovingly consecrate through dramatizing strokes of paint, nourished a tradition of so-called low-life painting that lasted into the 18th century.