And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar.
And the princes offered fordedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering before the altar.
In dedicating to you the fruits of my first historical labors in the field of literature, allow me to say that I am governed by reasons that will justify me.
We found her interested in listening to what we had to say about dedicating children to the service of the gods.
The mother had been convinced of the wrongness of dedicating the little babe, and would give us no trouble.
Is there no merit in dedicating my life to the information of my fellow-subjects?
Thus also Junius: "Is there no merit in dedicating my life to the information of my fellow-subjects?
In dedicating his life to the good of mankind, he studied method in the use of his great mental powers.
This was more than Johnson obtained for dedicating his condemned comedy, the "Generous Husband," to the last of the three Lords Ashburnham, who were alive in 1710.
So much then, at least, Johnson lost by notdedicating Irene.
Though the loftiness of his mind prevented him from ever dedicating in his own person[2], he wrote a very great number of Dedications for others.
But I do not relish the stateliness of not dedicating at all.
Josephus thought, or for dedicating her, who was his only child, to perpetual virginity, at the tabernacle or elsewhere, which I rather suppose.
This occasioned the author to take his revenge upon the town, by dedicating it to a certain Knight, under the title of Sir Critic Cat-call.
Henry Brome, dedicating a translation of Horace to Sir William Backhouse, writes of his own share of the volume, "to the translation whereof my pleasant retirement and conveniencies at your delightsome habitation have liberally contributed.
Could one do more than to give up everything he owns, and then complete the renunciation by dedicating his body, aye, his very soul, to Christ?
The "Fantaisie" dedicated to me is a work of the highest kind--and I am really proud of the honor you have done me in dedicating to me so grand a composition.
Will you, my dear musician, be so kind as to renew the expression of my gratitude to Madame Schestakoff for the honor she has done me in dedicating this work to me?
If so, the analogy of the custom to the Catholic practice of dedicating holy candles in churches would be obvious.
On this occasion he wrote his Treatise on Consolation, with a view to alleviate his grief; and, with the same object, he determined on dedicating a temple to his daughter, as a memorial of her virtues and his affection.
These he now remodelled and enlarged into four books, dedicating them to Varro, whom he introduced as advocating, in the presence of Atticus, the tenets of Antiochus, while he himself defended those of Philo.
The old "sacramentaries" of the eighth century and later extend the word sacrament to a great variety of rites such as blessing of the holy water, dedicating churches, etc.
Mindful of this, and of substantial friendship during the last seventeen years, Addison joined Steele in dedicating to his earliest patron the first volume of the Essays which include his best security of fame.
Neither is it to be forgotten, that this dedicating of foundations and dotations to professory learning hath not only had a malign aspect and influence upon the growth of sciences, but hath also been prejudicial to States and governments.
To better protect himself, Copernicus wrote a preface, dedicating the book to the Pope Paul, thus throwing himself upon the mercy of His Holiness.
Obelisks were in Egypt commemorative pillars recording the style and the title of the king who erected them, his piety, and the proof he gave of it in dedicating those monoliths to the deity whom he especially wished to honor.
We have much pleasure in dedicating this singular species to Mr. Lovell Reeve, who has evinced much interest in the shells of this group.
But our best virtues, when pushed to a certain degree, are on the point of becoming vices: She soon found she was to blame, in dedicating herself too fondly even to this beloved object.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dedicating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
