behallow

To make holy; consecrate; sanctify; hallow completely.

Verb

  1. To make holy; consecrate; sanctify; hallow completely.
    • [...] bishops and servants of God — the "senatores natu majores," the elders and chiefs of the people — caused his eldest son, Egfurth, to be behallowed (which is the Saxon term used for the consecration of a bishop) as...
    • Kings are "behallowed" as well as bishops; […] - 1842 April 5, “The Anglo-Saxon Confessions”, in The Church of England Quarterly Review, volume 11, article 4, page 343:

Origin

From be- + hallow.

Forms

behallows behallowing behallowed