- Cutting off - Enforcing solitude on - I sing a lot about separating - Keeping apart - Quarantining sailing to characters as ordered - Secluding - Separating
- The act of sanctifying or making holy; the state of
being sanctified or made holy; - the act of God's grace by which the affections of
men are purified, or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to a
supreme love to God; also, the state of being thus purified or
sanctified. - The act of consecrating, or of setting apart for a
sacred purpose; consecration.
- Admission to ministry - The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the
state of being ordained, appointed, etc. - The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian
ministry; the conferring of holy orders. - Disposition; arrangement; order.
- Allocation - The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine
Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn
appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple. - A devoting or setting aside for any particular purpose;
as, a dedication of lands to public use. - An address to a patron or friend, prefixed to a book,
testifying respect, and often recommending the work to his special
protection and favor.
- Devout - Faithful to a supernatural doctrine - Pious - Spiritual - Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion;
teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a
religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious
subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. - Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly;
as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc. - Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.
- Taking possession of - Taking without asking - The act of setting apart or assigning to a
particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of
all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of
ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object. - Anything, especially money, thus set apart. - The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the
perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone. - The application of payment of money by a debtor to
his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to
the latter.