Crossword clues for celebrating
celebrating
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Celebrate \Cel"e*brate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Celebrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Celebrating.] [L. celebratus, p. p. of celebrare to frequent, to celebrate, fr. celeber famous.]
To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High.
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To honor by solemn rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to keep; as, to celebrate a birthday.
From even unto even shall ye celebrate your Sabbath.
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To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to solemnize; to perform with appropriate rites; as, to celebrate a marriage.
Syn: To commemorate; distinguish; honor.
Usage: To Celebrate, Commemorate. We commemorate events which we desire to keep in remembrance, when we recall them by some special observace; as, to commemorate the death of our Savior. We celebrate by demonstrations of joy or solemnity or by appropriate ceremonies; as, to celebrate the birthday of our Independence.
We are called upon to commemorate a revolution as surprising in its manner as happy in its consequences.
--Atterbury.Earth, water, air, and fire, with feeling glee, Exult to celebrate thy festival.
--Thomson.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of celebrate English)
Usage examples of "celebrating".
The circus resounded with their indignant clamors, and they tumultuously besieged the gates of the palace, reproaching the pusillanimity of their indolent sovereign, and celebrating the heroic spirit of Constantine.
After celebrating his own clemency, which was still inclined to pardon their repeated crimes, and to spare the remnant of a guilty nation, Constantius assigned for the place of their exile a remote country, where they might enjoy a safe and honorable repose.
Stilicho resolved to attack the Christian Goths, whilst they were devoutly employed in celebrating the festival of Easter.
Corpus Christi was founded in 1352 because fees for celebrating masses for the dead were so inflated after the plague that two guilds of Cambridge decided to establish a college whose scholars, as clerics, would be required to pray for their deceased members.
While the knights caroused, the English seized the castle of Guines, whose absent captain was celebrating with his companions of the Star.
It was known that while Count Joscelin of Edessa had been celebrating the season of the Nativity at one of his estates upon the upper reaches of the Euphrates, Moslem hordes had fallen upon his principal city on the northern outposts of the Latin Kingdom, breached its walls, laid low its altars, and taken its burghers into captivity.
No medal is found celebrating the share of the Amazons in these exploits.
However, as Newburgh relates, it happened that some monks of Rouen were celebrating the feast of the saint in more reverent ways in the lofty tower of a church overlooking the countryside.
Most of its inhabitants continued attending the church Sundays, the men continued themselves reuniting in the Elk Club the first Fridays of every month, and the vacations of summer were continued celebrating traditional in the same way.
He and I was celebrating my next entrance in an i versidad emborrachando to us together in their study.
Perhaps these people, celebrating in the shadow of death and snuffed out before they even knew what force had snuffed them, would be thought the lucky ones in time.
He remembers the sunlight dancing on the Plexiglas canopy as he pulled the T-38 into a victory roll, and then another, celebrating the sky, the day, the coming mission, and his love for the two small figures seen so far below.
He would have told her now that Kenby was in the house, but he was really so sick of the fact himself that he could not speak of it at once, and he let her go on celebrating all she had seen from the window since she had waked from her long nap.
They always celebrated her birthday on the first of April now, because celebrating it on the day the Titanic had gone down was just too painful.