Word Meanings - THANKSGIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To give or dedicate in token of thanks. Mede.

THANKSGIVING
1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee
TOKENLESS
Without a token.
THANKSGIVER
One who gives thanks, or acknowledges a kindness. Barrow.
THANKSGIVE
To give or dedicate in token of thanks. Mede.
TOKEN
A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death. Like the fearful tokens of the plague, Are mere forerunners of their ends. Beau. & Fl. (more info) OS. tekan, D. teeken, G. zeichen, OHG. Zeihhan, Icel. takan,
DEDICATE
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
DEDICATEE
One to whom a thing is dedicated; -- correlative to dedicator.
TOKENED
Marked by tokens, or spots; as, the tokened pestilence. Shak.
BETOKEN
1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
FORETOKEN
Prognostic; previous omen. Sir P. Sidney.