Verb (used with object) : The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite. ,He dedicated his life to fighting corruption. ,The county health agency has dedicated one inspector to monitor conditions in nursing homes. From Dictionary.com.
There was no fatal rift between dedicator and dedicatee. From Wordnik.com. [Max Gross: This is Dedicated to the One I Schlub...] Reference
When I venture to inscribe to you the following pages, I am fearless of having applied to me Johnson's definition of a dedicator, "one who inscribes his work to a patron with compliment and servility.". From Wordnik.com. [On Calvinism] Reference
The dedicator signs himself at the bottom of the page 'Your. From Wordnik.com. [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference
This seems sufficiently caustic; but hear, how our dedicator proceeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2] Reference
The figure then probably represents the dedicator, bringing a calf for sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Greek Art] Reference
The second was built by Sulla, but the name of Catulus appears as its dedicator, for. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Lives, Volume I] Reference
Occasionally circumstances might speciously justify the publisher's appearance in the guise of a dedicator. From Wordnik.com. [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference
The forgiving disposition of the king is, according to the dedicator, the encouragement of the conspirators. From Wordnik.com. [The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author] Reference
"Marriage à la Mode" was inscribed to Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in strains of adulation not very honourable to the dedicator. From Wordnik.com. [The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author] Reference
“Marriage a la Mode” was inscribed to Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in strains of adulation not very honourable to the dedicator. From Wordnik.com. [The Dramatic Works of John Dryden]
In 1758, he exhibited the Old Man's Relapse, in more than words, by again becoming a dedicator, and publishing a sermon addressed to the king. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II] Reference
In that preliminary sentence the dedicator habitually 'wisheth' his patron one or more of such blessings as health, long life, happiness, and eternity. From Wordnik.com. [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference
I cannot, my dear Abbe, deny myfelf the pleafure of giving you a publick teftimony of my efleem and regard; but be not apprehensive that I mall abufe the privilege of a dedicator. From Wordnik.com. [Translations from the French] Reference
Were everything that Young ever wrote to be published, he would only appear perhaps in a less respectable light as a poet, and more despicable as a dedicator; he would not pass for. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2] Reference
The little square pillar of lapis-lazuli, upon which Osiris squats, is wrongly set up, and the names and titles of King Osorkon, the dedicator of the triad, are placed upside down. From Wordnik.com. [History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)] Reference
In most cases it was the work of the author, but numerous volumes, besides Shakespeare's 'Sonnets,' are extant in which the publisher (and not the author) fills the role of dedicator. From Wordnik.com. [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference
I hope, therefore, the present I now presume to make, will not be thought improper; which, however, it is not my business as a dedicator to commend, nor as a bookseller to depreciate. '. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765] Reference
Novel homozygous or compound heterozygous deletions and point mutations in the gene encoding the dedicator of cytokinesis 8 protein (DOCK8) led to the absence of DOCK8 protein in lymphocytes. From Wordnik.com. [New England Journal of Medicine] Reference
The initial letters of "The First Altar" of Dosiadas of Rhodes, form four words, and seem to be addressed to some "Olympian," who, the dedicator hopes "may live to offer sacrifice for many years.". From Wordnik.com. [History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour] Reference
The unhappy dedicator is seldom without some motives which obstruct, though not destroy, the liberty of choice; he is oppressed by miseries which he hopes to relieve, or inflamed by ambition which he expects to gratify. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference
It is 'happiness' and 'eternity,' or an equivalent paraphrase, that had the widest vogue among the good wishes with which the dedicator in the early years of the seventeenth century besought his patron's favour on the first page of his book. From Wordnik.com. [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference
To "The Epistle dedicatory" of this impression, the initials (or such like) of dedicatee's name only are given, for, says the dedicator, "I know no fame can redound unto you by these meane essayes, which were written. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Old Man's Relapse, "in more than words, by again becoming a dedicator, and publishing a sermon addressed to the king. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2] Reference
Swift, in the character of the dedicator, declares, "upon the word of a sincere man, that there is now actually in being a certain poet called. From Wordnik.com. [The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author] Reference
I, though a dedicator, scorn a fee. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works] Reference
To growing wealth the dedicator flies. From Wordnik.com. [English Satires] Reference
To growing wealth the dedicator flies. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
To growing wealth the dedicator flics. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or, Beauties of British Poetry] Reference
Nor sweetening dedicator smooth. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2] Reference
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