Consecrate

1. Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.
2. To make, or declare to be, sacred; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service or worship of God; as, to consecrate a church; to give (one's self) unreservedly, as to the service of God.
3. To set apart to a sacred office; as, to consecrate a bishop.
4. To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time.
5. To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor.