Crossword clues for dedicate
dedicate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dedicate \Ded"i*cate\, p. a. [L. dedicatus, p. p. of dedicare to
affirm, to dedicate; de- + dicare to declare, dedicate; akin
to dicere to say. See Diction.]
Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated. ``Dedicate to
nothing temporal.''
--Shak.
Syn: Devoted; consecrated; addicted.
Dedicate \Ded"i*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dedicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dedicating.]
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To set apart and consecrate, as to a divinity, or for sacred uses; to devote formally and solemnly; as, to dedicate vessels, treasures, a temple, or a church, to a religious use.
Vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, . . . which also king David did dedicate unto the Lord.
--2 Sam. viii. 10, 11.We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. . . . But in a larger sense we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground.
--A. Lincoln. -
To devote, set apart, or give up, as one's self, to a duty or service.
The profession of a soldier, to which he had dedicated himself.
--Clarendon. -
To inscribe or address, as to a patron.
He complied ten elegant books, and dedicated them to the Lord Burghley.
--Peacham.Syn: See Addict.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
(context obsolete English) Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated. v
1 (context transitive English) To set apart for a deity or for religious purposes; consecrate. 2 (context transitive English) To set apart for a special use 3 (context transitive English) To commit (oneself) to a particular course of thought or action 4 (context transitive English) To address or inscribe (a literary work, for example) to another as a mark of respect or affection. 5 (context transitive English) To open (a building, for example) to public use. 6 (context transitive English) To show to the public for the first time
WordNet
v. give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause; "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church" [syn: give, consecrate, commit, devote]
open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building; "The Beauty Queen spends her time dedicating parks and nursing homes"
inscribe or address by way of compliment; "She dedicated her book to her parents"
set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church
Wikipedia
Dedicate (1952–1973) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse.
Usage examples of "dedicate".
Its principle was the abnegation of selfishness by strictly limiting the expenditure of every member to the amount really necessary to his comfort, dedicating the rest to humanity.
Cantemir partly draws his materials from the Synopsis of Saadi Effendi of Larissa, dedicated in the year 1696 to Sultan Mustapha, and a valuable abridgment of the original historians.
The yeoman keyed up the proper addressee and transmitted the message by dedicated landline to COMSUBLANT Operations, half a mile away.
It had been almost a year since he had discovered her identity with the help of an Internet search group dedicated to reuniting adoptees with their biological parents.
The old annalists had it that Tigernmas had forsaken the ancient gods and turned to worship an idol dedicated to blood and vengeance.
Finally, he turned over his business to his brothers and resolved to dedicate his life to the Aquarian Foundation.
Hellfire League, Aurora knew, was an exclusive club of the premier rakes in England, dedicated to pleasure and debauchery.
Jigsaws, cards, roulette counters, poker chips, spillikins, marbles, yarrow stalks, dice, jacks, Trivial Pursuit wedges, bridge score-sheets, discarded Pictionary doodles, Scrabble tiles, bits of unidentifiable plastic and shards of bakelite, wood and metal formed a jumbled compost capable of engaging a dedicated housekeeper for several months of full-time sifting, cataloguing and sorting into the correct boxes.
For in this grievous calamity, this distressing bereavement, the best consolation and solace that the spiritual souls could offer is to dedicate themselves to the service of the Cause, to diffuse widely the sweet savours of holiness, to become wanderers in the path of that heavenly Best-Beloved, to let their whole beings burn and melt, and be enkindled with the fire of His love.
Apache Trudeau, the most feared Angel in the world, a man dedicated to the outlaw biker lifestyle, listens.
I saw a dedicated game of bocce, some chess boards, some people merely sitting, moving their chairs to follow the warm December sun.
Languedoc sent a delegation of nobles and bourgeois with a gift of 10,000 florins and the assurance that their lives, goods, and fortunes were dedicated to his delivery.
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Barcelona This book is dedicated in loving memory to my mother, Jaquith Juin Croker Chapter One.
She was his debriefer Davina Graham, a dedicated British operative who made her work her life.