Consecrate
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In ecclesiastical law
To dedicate to sacred purposes, as a bishop by imposition of hands, or a church or cebhurehyard by prayers, etc. Consecration is performed by a bishop or archbishop. Consecratio est periodus electionis; electio est preeambula consecrationis.
2 Rolle, 102.
Consecration is the termination of election; election is the preamble of consecration.