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Dedicate

verb

(past & past part. dedicated; pres. part. dedicating)

Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause. Synonyms: commit, consecrate, devote, give. "Give one's talents to a good cause" , "Consecrate your life to the church"

Open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building.

Inscribe or address by way of compliment.

Set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church.

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"Dedicate" Quotes from Famous Books

... they stand for are duly remembered each recurring year on the proper date. Birthdays, religious feast days, days of battle—many are the occasions commemorated. The value to us of such special days is in their observance—that we dedicate ourselves ...

— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell

... by whose protection we were preserved the night passed, and are here before Thee this morning in health and safety; we dedicate this day, and all the days we have to live to Thy service; resolving, that we will abstain from all evil, that we will take heed to the thing that is right in all our actions, and endeavour to do our duty in that state of life in which Thy Providence has placed us. We would ...

— Some Remains (hitherto unpublished) of Joseph Butler, LL.D. • Joseph Butler

... drove men and women out of the tumult of the world, out of great cities, into desert places, in order that they might dedicate themselves to a pure and perfect life. There they built for themselves huts, and formed a state, whose law was labour and devotion to God. No earthly possession was enjoyed merely on account of ...

— The Home • Fredrika Bremer

... dedicate my travels to you. My present expedition has been very amusing, sights are thick sown in the counties of York and Nottingham; the former is more historic, and the great lords live at a prouder distance: in Nottinghamshire there is a very heptarchy of little kingdoms elbowing one another, ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole

... trusted every thing; and as I was fond of retirement and deep study, I commonly left the management of my state affairs to your uncle, my false brother (for so indeed he proved). I, neglecting all worldly ends, buried among my books, did dedicate my whole time to the bettering of my mind. My brother Antonio being thus in possession of my power, began to think himself the duke indeed. The opportunity I gave him of making himself popular among my subjects, awakened in his bad nature a proud ambition ...

— Books for Children - The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 3 • Charles and Mary Lamb

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