sacralize

English

Etymology

From sacral +‎ -ize.

Verb

sacralize (third-person singular simple present sacralizes, present participle sacralizing, simple past and past participle sacralized)

1. (religion) to make sacred

   Synonyms: sacredize, sanctify; see also Thesaurus:consecrate

   Antonyms: desacralize; see also Thesaurus:desecrate

   • 2022 June 6, Patrick Jonsson, Noah Robertson, “Has the gun become a sacred object in America?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     Bishop Daniel Flores of the Brownsville Diocese in Texas recently wrote on Twitter that Americans “sacralize death’s instruments, and then are surprised that death uses them.” [...] Bishop Flores told the Catholic website The Pillar, “[...] To say something is sacralized is to say it’s almost taken out of any possibility for conversation.”

Derived terms

• desacralize
• resacralize
• sacralization

 

Translations

to make sacred

• Finnish: pyhittää (fi), julistaa pyhäksi
• Russian: сакрализовать (ru) (sakralizovatʹ)

Anagrams

• scalarize

Portuguese

Verb

sacralize

1. inflection of sacralizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative