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Definition of Dedicate
1. Verb. Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause. "Consecrate your life to the church"
Specialized synonyms: Consecrate, Vow, Rededicate, Apply
Related verbs: Give, Give, Sacrifice
Generic synonyms: Apply, Employ, Use, Utilise, Utilize
Derivative terms: Commitment, Consecration, Dedication, Dedication, Dedication, Dedication, Devotee, Devotion, Devotion
2. Verb. Open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building. "The Beauty Queen spends her time dedicating parks and nursing homes"
3. Verb. Inscribe or address by way of compliment. "She dedicated her book to her parents"
4. Verb. Set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church.
Definition of Dedicate
1. p. a. Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.
2. 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.
Definition of Dedicate
1. Verb. (transitive) To set apart for a deity or for religious purposes; consecrate. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To set apart for a special use ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To commit (oneself) to a particular course of thought or action ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To address or inscribe (a literary work, for example) to another as a mark of respect or affection. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To open (a building, for example) to public use. ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) To show to the public for the first time ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dedicate
1. to set apart for some special use [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dedicate
Literary usage of Dedicate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"Mere non action will not raise an implication of an intention to dedicate private
property to public use, nor will it estop the owner to deny such intention ..."
2. A Treatise Upon Some of the General Principles of the Law: Whether of a by William Wait (1879)
"7 Who may dedicate. No one but the owner of land or his duly authorized agent can
... Thus, a railroad company may dedicate land for a public highway. ..."
3. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"of a patron, to whom I intended the dedication of this first part of my History.
I after was entered on a resolution to dedicate ..."
4. The Christian Examiner (1847)
"We dedicate it to his undivided unity, to his supreme and unrivalled majesty.
... We dedicate it to the Holy Spirit, the regenerating and sanctifying power ..."
5. The Constitutional Antiquities of Sparta and Athens by Gustav Gilbert (1895)
"... and infers that slaves when emancipated were accustomed to dedicate such cups
to Athena. In the apparently analogous inscription, CIA, II. ..."
6. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"In 1797 appeared, at the Minerva Press, 'Bungay Castle,' 2 vols., a novel which
Mrs. Bonhote was permitted to dedicate to the Duke of Norfolk. ..."
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