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動詞

behallow (三人称単数 現在形 behallows, 現在分詞 behallowing, 過去形および過去分詞形 behallowed)

1. (transitive) To make holy; consecrate; sanctify; hallow completely.
   • 1835, William Henry C. Grey, The Lords and the People:

     [...] bishops and servants of God — the "senatores natu majores," the elders and chiefs of the people — caused his eldest son, Egfurth, to be behallowed (which is the Saxon term used for the consecration of a bishop) as king of Mercia.

   • 1842 April 1, “The Anglo-Saxon Confessions”, in The Church of England Quarterly Review, volume 11, article 4, page 343:

     Kings are "behallowed" as well as bishops; […]

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:consecrate