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Dedicated   /dˈɛdəkeɪtəd/   Listen
Dedicated

adjective
1.
Devoted to a cause or ideal or purpose.  "Dedicated teachers" , "Dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal"
2.
Solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high purpose.  Synonyms: consecrate, consecrated.  "The consecrated chapel" , "A chapel dedicated to the dead of World War II"


Dedicate

verb
(past & past part. dedicated; pres. part. dedicating)
1.
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"
2.
Open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building.
3.
Inscribe or address by way of compliment.
4.
Set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church.



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"Dedicated" Quotes from Famous Books



... from this, Saint Vincent, the Patron, as I said before, of this City, has a Chapel dedicated to him. Once a Year they do him Honour in a sumptuous Procession. Then are their Streets all strow'd with Flowers, and their Houses set off with their richest Tapestries, every one strives to excel his Neighbour in distinguishing ...
— Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton • Daniel Defoe
... days after my arrival. When we met his nose had resumed its former appearance, and he never brought up the subject of the evening on board of the lighter. I saw him frequently, mostly on Sundays after I had been to church with the family; and half-an-hour, at least, was certain to be dedicated to our reading together one ...
— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat
... instrumental music.... He has proclaimed the reign of free music."[132] This was not said impulsively in a moment of enthusiasm; M. Saint-Saens has always held this opinion. All his life he has remained faithful to his admiration of Liszt—since 1858, when he dedicated a Veni Creator to "the Abbe Liszt," until 1886, when, a few months after Liszt's death, he dedicated his masterpiece, the Symphonic avec orgue, "To the memory of ...
— Musicians of To-Day • Romain Rolland
... Listen. It's a limerick. I made it up out of the fullness of my heart, and it's about myself but dedicated to you. ...
— Little Miss Grouch - A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's - Maiden Transatlantic Voyage • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... him smoked on in silence for a minute. Old Macdonald, who had been sitting contentedly puffing away in a corner peculiarly his own, and dedicated to the glorification—in broad Berwickshire—of the experimental philosophers, laid down his pipe and put on his spectacles, that he might grasp the situation better. Then Lestrange, in a dry cautious way, asked Elsmere ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward


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