Word Meanings - HOSTIE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The consecrated wafer; the host. Bp. Burnet.

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• CONSECRATE
  Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon.
• BURNET
  A genus of perennial herbs ; especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. Burnet moth , in England, a handsome moth , with crimson spots on the wings. -- Burnet saxifrage. See Saxifrage. -- Canadian burnet, a marsh plant . --
• CONSECRATION
  The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication. Until the days of your consecration be at an end. Lev. viii. 33. Consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemny declares it so. South.
• CONSECRATORY
  Of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory. The consecratory prayer. Bp. Burnet.
• CONSECRATER
  Consecrator.
• WAFERER
  A dealer in the cakes called wafers; a confectioner. Chaucer.
• WAFER
  A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients. Wafers piping hot out of the gleed. Chaucer. The curious work in pastry, the fine cakes, wafers, and marchpanes. Holland. A woman's oaths are wafers -- break with making B. Jonson. (more
• CONSECRATOR
  One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a
• BURNETTIZE
  To subject to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett.
• DECONSECRATE
  To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n.
• DISCONSECRATE
  To deprive of consecration or sacredness.
• MISCONSECRATION
  Wrong consecration.
• MISCONSECRATE
  To consecrate amiss. "Misconsecrated flags." Bp. Hall.
• UNCONSECRATE
  To render not sacred; to deprive of sanctity; to desecrate. South.
• RECONSECRATION
  Renewed consecration.
• RECONSECRATE
  To consecrate anew or again.