Consecrated

(adj.) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high purpose; 'a life consecrated to science'; 'the consecrated chapel'; 'a chapel dedicated to the dead of World War II' .

(adj.) made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use; 'a consecrated church'; 'the sacred mosque'; 'sacred elephants'; 'sacred bread and wine'; 'sanctified wine' .

编辑:基蒂

• Moreover, a priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense _esprit de corps_. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Mon amie, said he, none knows what I have done save you and myself: the pleasure is consecrated to us two, unshared and unprofaned. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He soon returned, bringing a plate in his own consecrated hand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Père Silas _did_ say that his vocation was almost that of a priest--that his life was considered consecrated. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Is this place of abomination consecrated ground? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It was not priestly, it had no consecrated temple and no altar. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I consecrated my future life, to the embalming of her dear memory; I vowed to serve her brother and her child till death. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• They were her life; dearer than a spot consecrated to love, dearer than all else the earth contained. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Bulstrode's standard had been his serviceableness to God's cause: I am sinful and nought--a vessel to be consecrated by use--but use me! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The centre of its elaborate ritual was an altar, and the essential act of worship the sacrifice, by a consecrated priest, of the mass. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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