DEDICATE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Dedicate

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/dˈɛdəkˌeɪt/ Listen

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.

See more definitions of Dedicate...

See images of 'Dedicate'

Etymology of 'Dedicate'

Related search:

rededicate

Share |

"Dedicate" Quotes from Famous Books

... that in one thing only I find satisfaction, namely, in knowing that while in many matters I may have made mistakes, at least I have not been mistaken in choosing you before all others as the persons to whom I dedicate these Discourses; both because I seem to myself, in doing so, to have shown a little gratitude for kindness received, and at the same time to have departed from the hackneyed custom which leads many authors to inscribe their works to some Prince, and blinded by hopes ...

— Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius • Niccolo Machiavelli

... lives that night. They were merely crying out to a higher power for protection. They were like the death-bed fears of the infidel, for I have seen seventeen infidels die and everyone showed the white feather. Nay, those prayers were unsanctified by the spirit, but let us who are here now living, dedicate ourselves to the service of Almighty God. There were those who were to be dedicated that night. I know one who, when it came, sent his family up the staircase, and taking up his Bible from his parlor table, opened at the 46th ...

— The Johnstown Horror • James Herbert Walker

... student should dedicate himself to the creation of a Christian social order today, would it ...

— The Social Principles of Jesus • Walter Rauschenbusch

... read the diary and the autobiography of the thirteenth century and of the Italian people. Complete and harmonious in design as his work is, it is yet no Pagan temple enshrining a type of the human made divine by triumph of corporeal beauty; it is not a private chapel housing a single saint and dedicate to one chosen bloom of Christian piety or devotion; it is truly a cathedral, over whose high altar hangs the emblem of suffering, of the Divine made human to teach the beauty of adversity, the eternal presence of the spiritual, not overhanging and threatening, ...

— Among My Books • James Russell Lowell

... simpler jobs, and really learning fast. And he's been so interested he's forgotten all his deviltry. So, yesterday, didn't he and his father and his mother and about a dozen littler brothers and sisters all come in solemn procession, dressed in their best, to dedicate him to me and my profession, as ...

— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield

More quotes...