The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dedicatory \Ded"i*ca*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]dicatoire.]
Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental. ``An
epistle dedicatory.''
--Dryden.
Dedicatory \Ded"i*ca*to*ry\, n.
Dedication. [R.]
--Milton.
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Wiktionary
a. of or pertaining to dedication. n. A dedication.
Usage examples of "dedicatory".
On the coins minted during his reign, on the dedicatory tablets affixed to the many structures built during his reign, never was he styled King of Rome, King of Italia, King of the Western Empire, not even King of the Ostrogoths.
Italia and in outlying provinces too, there stood newly erected edifices and lovingly refurbished old ones bearing dedicatory tiles gratefully affixed by the local folk: REG DN THEOD FELIX ROMAE.
The square before the basilica was studded with dedicatory altars, set up in payment of vows.
The speech was communicated to her, and she proposed to attach a dedicatory strip of silk.
The owner of that spinal cord gratefully tenders this dedicatory appreciation.
Augustus in her hall and proposed, as High Priestess of his cult, to invite all the senators and their wives to the dedicatory banquet.
Head, MDCCXI, with dedicatory epiftle to his worthy friend Charles Cox, efquire, Member of Parliament for the burgh of Southwark and having ink calligraphed statement on the flyleaf certifying that the book was the property of Michael Gallagher, dated this 10th day of May 1822 and requefting the perfon who should find it, if the book should be loft or go aftray, to reftore it to Michael Gallagher, carpenter, Dufery Gate, Ennifcorthy, county Wicklow, the fineft place in the world.
Caesar in describing his own exploits, in his dedicatory letter to the Duchess of Richmond, must be taken as an excess of modesty.
Mickey Mangun and another Pentecostal friend, Janice Sjostrand, sang at the dedicatory church service at my first inauguration and brought the house down.
Mickey Mangun and another Pentecostal friend, Janice Sjostrand, sang at the dedicatory church service at my first inauguration and brought the house down.
Caesar in describing his own exploits, in his dedicatory letter to the Duchess of Richmond, must be taken as an excess of modesty.
My Dear Sir Charles, I take leave to dedicate this work to you, not merely because your nineteen years of political and literary life in Australia render it very fitting that any work written by a resident in the colonies, and having to do with the history of past colonial days, should bear your name upon its dedicatory page.