I find," he replied, "that it would be a piece of poltroonery in me to withdraw either the dedication or the dedicatory letter, .
The dedicatory letter was printed, of course, and drew down upon Hawthorne abundant condemnation; but he had maintained his integrity.
See also his Dedicatory Epistle prefixed to the same work.
I should so much like to write your name and a few words on the dedicatory page.
On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle, he delivered the dedicatory address at the unveiling of the regimental monument, exactly twenty-five years to the hour after his engagement in battle.
A rose-window occupies the central place, and above the door (which is rather later in style) is a long dedicatory inscription in an ornamented panel space.
The ground is gold, and below, at the springing of the dome, is the long dedicatory inscription in gold letters on a blue ground.
They are dedicatoryofferings made to Apollo, probably by the persons represented.
It is probable that the columns were inscribed with dedicatory inscriptions, of which we here have fragments.
It is far more likely that these wonderful calculiform letters enshrine a dedicatory prayer to the presiding deity of the temple, with perhaps a full description of the god and his attributes.
The book is dedicated by Vanini to Marshal Bassompierre, and the epistle dedicatory makes mention of the Serenissima Regina aeterni nominis Maria Medicæa, which would disarm suspicion.
Only the special favour accorded to his first sketch at Rome--a favour which he had further carefully planned for in his dedicatory epistle to Pope Paul--saved his main treatise from prohibition till long after its work was done.
There is no negation, the author's object being avowedly peace and conciliation; but the Epistle Dedicatory declares that religious reasoners have hitherto "failed in their foundation-work.
This settlement has the dedicatory title of St. Andres.
The initial fast of a young man or girl holds the relative importance of baptism, with this peculiarity, that it is a free-will, or self-dedicatory rite.
Another settlement, of the same name, with the dedicatory title of Santa Maria, in the district of Zitaguaro, contains 24 families.
All these bear the same name, with the prefix of the dedicatory patron, Santa Ana.
Possibly Mrs. Behn sent the Dedicatory Epistle to press as an afterthought at the last moment and did not see a proof.
This Epistle Dedicatory and the five complimentary poems which follow are only in the editio princeps, 1686.
While its usual dedicatory inscriptions remained undoubtedly as they were chiseled, the point or apex seems to have been surmounted by gold or gilded bronze.
Boulengier states in his dedicatory letter that he had noted other globes which had been previously published.
This dedicatoryepistle is a well writ and close stile.
Printer to the Understanders, its place being taken by a dedicatory letter in young Donne's most courtly style to William, Lord Craven, Baron of Hamsted-Marsham.
This notice follows the dedicatory preface in the edition of 1558.
This dedicatory preface appeared in the first edition of Queen Margaret's Tales, published by Boaistuau in 1558 under the title of Histoires des Amans Fortunez.
It contains a dedicatory letter by Mr. Ross to Dr.
In the course of this dedicatory letter, Mr. Ross says: "In sending copy to Messrs.
He denied the charge again by the way in which he took to himself the dedicatory note to the Essay on Friendship.
There is no more truth in the fable that Harriett Grove wrote some of the chapters of Zastrozzi, than there is in the fable that she was the Harriett of the Dedicatory Prelude to Queen Mab.
That both Mrs. Shelley and Lady Shelley had considerable, though insufficient, grounds for regarding the dedicatory stanzas as a record of the poet's experiences at Eton, is unquestionable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dedicatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
