Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Roman antiquity, the act of depriving a thing or person of sacred character; secularization: a ceremony necessary before consecrated buildings could be used for secular purposes, or priests resign their sacred functions, or enter into matrimony in cases where celibacy was required.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of exaugurating; desecration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The act of
exaugurating ;desecration .
Etymologies
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Latin exauguratio desecration.
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