Crossword Dictionary
DEDICATE
dedicate, dedicated, dedicates, dedicating, rededicate, undedicated - v
to set apart for some special use
Synonyms
allot, apply, apportion, assign, commit, devote, give, restrict, address, appropriate, consign, inscribe, offer, pledge, surrender
Examples
A person could dedicate his life to understanding just one suggestion and never even get close.
Well, Bordeaux was just the man to help her forget it - if he'd only dedicate his attentions to Darcie.
His new wife longed for the necklace and peplus, and Alcmaeon, returning to Psophis, obtained possession of them, on the pretence that he desired to dedicate them at Delphi.
Etymology
early 15c. (of church buildings) "set apart and consecrate to a deity or a sacred purpose," from Latin dedicatus, past participle of dedicare "consecrate, proclaim, affirm, set apart," from de "away" (see de-) + dicare "proclaim" (from PIE root *deik- "to show," also "pronounce solemnly," and see diction).