Commit and Consecrate

• (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
• (v.t.) To confound.
• (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
• (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
• (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
• (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
• (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

verb

• Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
  • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • synonyms: perpetrate, pull
• Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
  • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
• Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
  • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
• Confer a trust upon.
  • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
• Make an investment.
  • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • synonyms: invest, put, place
• Engage in or perform.
  • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
  • synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

verb

• Appoint to a clerical posts.
  • usage: "he was ordained in the Church"
  • synonyms: ordain, ordinate, order
• Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
  • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • synonyms: give, dedicate, commit, devote
• Dedicate to a deity by a vow.
  • synonyms: vow
• Render holy by means of religious rites.
  • synonyms: bless, hallow, sanctify

adjective

• Solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high purpose.
  • usage: "a life consecrated to science"; "the consecrated chapel"; "a chapel dedicated to the dead of World War II"
  • synonyms: consecrated, dedicated

• (v.t.) To make or declare to be, sacred; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate or devote, to the service or worship of God; as, to consecrate a church; to give (one's self) unreservedly, as to the service of God.
• (v.t.) To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor.
• (v.t.) To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time.
• (a.) Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.
• (v.t.) To set apart to a sacred office; as, to consecrate a bishop.