sacrō āvī, ātus, āre sacer, to set apart as sacred, consecrate, dedicate, devote: agrum: praedam, L.: (laurum) Phoebo, V.: aras, V.: votum inmortale, V.: auream aquilam, Cu.: sacratas fide manūs, L.: sacrata Crotonis Ossa, O.: templum, V.
—To devote, doom, declare accursed, condemn: de sacrando cum bonis capite eius leges, L.
—To set apart, consecrate, devote, give, dedicate: quod patriae vacat, id studiis nobisque sacrasti, C. poet.: tibi sacratum opus, O.: Parcae telis sacrarunt Evandri (Halaesum), devote, V.
—To render sacred, hallow, consecrate: foedus in Capitolio sacratum, declared inviolable, L.: cum sacratis legibus sanctum esset, ut, etc., by laws whose violation is followed by a curse: sacrata lex, a law under the protection of the gods, L.
—To hold sacred, worship as sacred: patrem deūm hominumque hac sede, L.: Vesta sacrata, O.
—To render imperishable, immortalize: quod Libitina sacravit, H.: eloquentia eius sacrata scriptis omnis generis, L.: avum Sacrarunt carmina tuum, O.