Definition of Dedicate

1. Verb. Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause. "Consecrate your life to the church"

Exact synonyms: Commit, Consecrate, Devote, Give
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"
Generic synonyms: Inaugurate, Kick Off
Derivative terms: Dedication

3. Verb. Inscribe or address by way of compliment. "She dedicated her book to her parents"
Specialized synonyms: Inscribe
Generic synonyms: Give, Render
Derivative terms: Dedication

4. Verb. Set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church.
Generic synonyms: Assign, Set Apart, Specify
Derivative terms: Dedication

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

decypher
decyphered
decyphering
decyphers
dedal
dedalian
dedalous
dedans
dedecoration
dedecorous
dedendum
dedendums
dedentition
dedicant
dedicants
dedicate (current term)
dedicated
dedicated file server
dedicatedly
dedicatee
dedicatees
dedicates
dedicating
dedication
dedications
dedicator
dedicatorial
dedicatories
dedicators
dedicatory

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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