Difference between Ordained and Consecrated

What is the difference between Ordained and Consecrated?

Ordained as a verb is to prearrange unalterably. while Consecrated as a verb is to declare something holy, or make it holy by some procedure.

Ordained

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Established by authority. Admitted to the ministry of the church.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To prearrange unalterably.

Example sentence: The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.

Consecrated

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To declare something holy, or make it holy by some procedure.

Example sentence: And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

We hope you now know whether to use Ordained or Consecrated in your sentence.

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