consecrative

Indeed for quiet family parties it was from among them only that Mme. de Guermantes might select her guests, and in the dinners for twelve, gathered around the dazzling napery and plate, they were like the golden statues of the Apostles in the Sainte-Chapelle, symbolic, consecrative pillars before the

The Guermantes Way 2003

The highest form is both creative and consecrative, if I may use the word, merging in diviner thought.

The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

In the numerous cases in which some person or some object was to be consecrated to the deity a sacrifice was necessary in order to secure his good will; the ordination of temple-ministers, or the initiation of the young into the tribe, demanded some _consecrative_ sacrifice.

Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

No purificatory and consecrative usage has been more widespread than fasting. [

Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877