Synonyms for dedicate
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : verb ded-i-keyt; adjective ded-i-kit |
| Phonetic Transcription : verb ˈdɛd ɪˌkeɪt; adjective ˈdɛd ɪ kɪt |
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Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for dedicate
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