Word Meanings - DEDICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated. "Dedicate to nothing temporal." Shak. Syn. -- Devoted; consecrated; addicted. (more info) to dedicate; de- + dicare to declare, dedicate; akin to dicere to
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEDICATE)
- Apply
- Adduce
- use
- employ
- allot
- dedicate
- devote
- exercise
- apportion
- direct
- engage
- Consecrate
- Dedicate
- enshrine
- hallow
- sanctify
- Hallow
- venerate
- reverence
- Inscribe
- Letter
- write
- label
- designate
- delineate
- mark
- imprint
- engrave
- address
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEDICATE)
Related words: (words related to DEDICATE)
- HALLOW
To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed - DIRECT CURRENT
A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the - DIRECTER
One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel. - ALLOTTABLE
Capable of being allotted. - RELAXANT
A medicine that relaxes; a laxative. - IMPRINT
to imprint, fr. L. imprimere to impres, imprint. See 1st In-, Print, 1. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp. And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands. Prior. 2. To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates, - ALLOTRIOPHAGY
A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food. - LABELER
One who labels. - DESIGNATE
Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck. - DIRECT ACTION
See BELOW - ENSHRINE
To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory. We will enshrine it as holy relic. Massinger. - ADDUCE
To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. - DIRECT NOMINATION
The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates - DIRECTRIX
1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating - RELAXATIVE
Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n. - WRITER
1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer - LETTERER
One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters. - DEVOTE
1. To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames. No devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the Lord - LETTERURE
Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer. - UNEMPLOYMENT
Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent. - PRELUDE
An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with - INDEVOTE
Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon. - SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
The tenets of the Sadducees. - DELINEATE
Delineated; portrayed. - REWRITE
To write again. Young. - REENGAGEMENT
A renewed or repeated engagement. - DECONSECRATE
To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n. - PRELUDER
One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason. - CONSECRATE
Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon. - BLACK LETTER
The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type. - PLAYWRITER
A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky. - STORY-WRITER
1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.