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Desecrate


DESECRATE, verb transitive [Latin To consecrate, from sacred.]

1. To divert from a sacred purpose or appropriation; opposed to consecrate; as, to desecrate a donation to a church.

2. To divest of a sacred character or office.

The clergy-cannot suffer corporal punishment, without being previously desecrated.