I. A religious dedication, consecration: “domūs,” Cic. Dom. 40, 106; 50, 128: “bonorum,” id. ib. 48, 125.—Also of the deification of the Roman emperor, * Tac. A. 13, 2 fin.; * Suet. Dom. 2: “falsae consecrationes,” Lact. 1, 20, 24; “and of the consecration of a priest,” Inscr. Grut. 303, 2.—*
II. An execration, in laws: “consecratione legis aut poenae, cum caput ejus, qui contra fecerit, consecratur,” Cic. Balb. 14, 33.—*
III. A magical incantation, Lampr. Elag. 9, 1.