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Grammar : Verb
Spell : verb ded-i-keyt; adjective ded-i-kit
Phonetic Transcription : verb ˈdɛd ɪˌkeɪt; adjective ˈdɛd ɪ kɪt



Definition of dedicate

Origin :
  • early 15c. (of churches), from Latin dedicatus, past participle of dedicare "consecrate, proclaim, affirm, set apart," from de- "away" (see de-) + dicare "proclaim," from stem of dicere "to speak, to say" (see diction). Dedicated "devoted to one's aims or vocation" is first attested 1944.
  • verb donate, set aside for special use
  • verb sanctify
Example sentences :
  • To dedicate the chapel to her patron saint was only natural.
  • Extract from : « Byzantine Churches in Constantinople » by Alexander Van Millingen
  • If a man should dedicate himself to the payment of notes, would not this be injustice?
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Such is the discourse, half playful, half serious, which I dedicate to the god.
  • Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato
  • You must dedicate this morning to me: it's the last, you know.
  • Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 » by Various
  • He has told me of your days in South America together and how he told you to dedicate it.
  • Extract from : « David Dunne » by Belle Kanaris Maniates
  • I dedicate it to the film, to the moving picture, to beauty!
  • Extract from : « The Crimson Tide » by Robert W. Chambers
  • Every moment I can spare from the Company I dedicate to you.
  • Extract from : « Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782 » by Lucinda Lee Orr
  • And he had sworn to dedicate the rest of his life to being worthy of her condescension.
  • Extract from : « All Roads Lead to Calvary » by Jerome K. Jerome
  • He completed, but did not dedicate, the palace, and finished the porticoes round it.
  • Extract from : « Theodoric the Goth » by Thomas Hodgkin
  • If the publisher would let me, I'd dedicate this book to you, to "Those States."
  • Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence

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