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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To make (a church, synagogue, or temple, for example) no longer consecrated.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To deprive of the character conferred by consecration; secularize.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To deprive of sacredness; to secularize.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To remove the consecration from a church or similar building

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb remove the consecration from a person or an object

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Examples

  • That the whole of the area which the temple of Jupiter was to occupy might be wholly devoted to that deity, he decided to deconsecrate the fanes and chapels, some of which had been originally vowed by King Tatius at the crisis of his battle with Romulus, and subsequently consecrated and inaugurated.

    The History of Rome, Vol. I 1905

  • He denied her privileges; he strove to deconsecrate her sanctuary.

    Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895

  • Peter Borre, co-chairman of the Council of Parishes, which formed to fight church closings, anticipated the Cardinal's decision and said the vigils will continue and the decision will be appealed to the Vatican, which has already reversed the decisions by some U.S. bishops to deconsecrate churches.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • Peter Borre, co-chairman of the Council of Parishes, which formed to fight church closings, anticipated the Cardinal's decision and said the vigils will continue and the decision will be appealed to the Vatican, which has already reversed the decisions by some U.S. bishops to deconsecrate churches.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Peter Borre, co-chairman of the Council of Parishes, which formed to fight church closings, anticipated the Cardinal's decision and said the vigils will continue and the decision will be appealed to the Vatican, which has already reversed the decisions by some U.S. bishops to deconsecrate churches.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • Peter Borre, co-chairman of the Council of Parishes, which formed to fight church closings, anticipated the Cardinal's decision and said the vigils will continue and the decision will be appealed to the Vatican, which has already reversed the decisions by some U.S. bishops to deconsecrate churches.

    SFGate: Top News Stories By MARK PRATT 2011

  • Peter Borre, co-chairman of the Council of Parishes, which formed to fight church closings, anticipated the Cardinal's decision and said the vigils will continue and the decision will be appealed to the Vatican, which has already reversed the decisions by some U.S. bishops to deconsecrate churches.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • Peter Borre, co-chairman of the Council of Parishes, which formed to fight church closings, anticipated the Cardinal's decision and said the vigils will continue and the decision will be appealed to the Vatican, which has already reversed the decisions by some U.S. bishops to deconsecrate churches.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • If the past congregation approves of the temple's donation, Samuels said the institute would send a rabbi to Brookhaven to deconsecrate the building, after which the temple would no longer be considered an operational Jewish temple.

    unknown title 2009

  • a construction hard hat and a raincoat to hurriedly deconsecrate a historic Anglican chapel, which had suffered irreparable damage.

    FOXNews.com 2010

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