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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



... Malalas to have occurred on the 13th of December, A.D. 115. On these statements, combined with the fact that the day dedicated to St Ignatius at a later age was the 20th of December [79:4], Volkmar builds his theory. It will be observed that the cause of the martyr's death, as laid down by Volkmar, receives no countenance from the story of Malalas, who gives ...
— Essays on "Supernatural Religion" • Joseph B. Lightfoot
... appeared in octavo, in 1667, and was afterwards frequently reprinted in quarto. It was dedicated to the metropolis of Great Britain, as represented by the lord mayor and magistrates. A letter to Sir Robert Howard was prefixed to the poem, in which the author explains the purpose of the work, and the difficulties which presented themselves in the execution. And in this epistle, as a contrast ...
— The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Vol. I. - With a Life of the Author • Sir Walter Scott
... that his sister was profiting by it. Now, I call that one of the noblest things I ever heard of, for he is devotedly attached to his sister, and, naturally, it is a great grief to him to see her compelled to work for a living. His last book was dedicated to her, and the dedication is one of the most tender and pathetic things ...
— The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck - A Comedy of Limitations • James Branch Cabell
... this respect, the close of Goethe's poem dedicated to the cirrus-formation and the poem inspired by his sight of a waterfall in the Bernese Alps as indications of the fact that he was himself aware of the water-rejuvenating process in the higher reaches ...
— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs
... generosity and kindliness to all with whom he was brought into contact. Crabb Robinson described him as a man 'whose life is spent in making people happy.' He was a distant cousin of Miss Barrett, and a friend of Robert Browning, who dedicated to him his volume of 'Dramatic Romances,' besides writing and sending to him 'Andrea del Sarto' as a substitute for a print of the painter's portrait which he had been unable to find. The best account of Kenyon is to be found in Mrs. Crosse's 'John Kenyon and his Friends' ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) • Frederic G. Kenyon


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