Definition of dedicate

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Dedicate (v. t.) 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..

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Dedicatee :: Dedicatee (n.) One to whom a thing is dedicated; -- correlative to dedicator.
Oblati :: Oblati (n. pl.) Children dedicated in their early years to the monastic state.
Vow :: Vow (n.) To give, consecrate, or dedicate to God, or to some deity, by a solemn promise; to devote; to promise solemnly..
Dedicate :: Dedicate (v. t.) 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..
Italic :: Italic (a.) Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500..
Thanksgive :: Thanksgive (v. t.) To give or dedicate in token of thanks.
Devote :: Devote (v. t.) To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames..
Inscribe :: Inscribe (v. t.) To assign or address to; to commend to by a shot address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend..
Dedicate :: Dedicate (p. a.) Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.
Janus :: "Janus (n.) A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple of Janus. This passage was open in war and closed in peace..
Consecrate :: Consecrate (a.) Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.
Hermes :: Hermes (n.) Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue, under Ter
Consecrate :: Consecrate (v. t.) To make, or declare to be, sacred; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service or worship of God; as, to consecrate a church; to give (one's self) unreservedly, as to the service of God..
Consecrator :: Consecrator (n.) One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes.
Dedicate :: Dedicate (v. t.) To inscribe or address, as to a patron..
Dedicate :: Dedicate (v. t.) To devote, set apart, or give up, as one's self, to a duty or service..
Pantheon :: Pantheon (n.) A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome..
Temple :: Temple (n.) A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India..
Sacred :: Sacred (a.) Consecrated; dedicated; devoted; -- with to.
Inaugurate :: Inaugurate (v. t.) To celebrate the completion of, or the first public use of; to dedicate, as a statue..
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