CELEBRATE Copy link • CELEBRATEgive praise to, celebrare (general term for making a thing known and famous by one’s mention of it): praedicare (to praise by a loud and public declaration): laudare (to praise; opposed to vituperere, etc.): canere (to praise in poetry; post-Augustan for “celebrare” generally). To celebrate anybody’s praises, alicujus laudes or de alicujus laudibus praedicare: to celebrate anybody in verse, aliquem carmine celebrare; alicujus laudes or de alicujus laudibus canere: alicujus facta canere (of praising his achievements): anybody’s name in one’s writings, nomen alicujus celebrare scriptis: memoriam alicujus scriptis prosequi (the latter, of course, if the person is dead). [Vid: PRAISE anybody.] Solemnize, agere, agitare (the proper word for festivals, birthdays, holidays, etc.): celebrare (to assist by one’s presence in making a numerous assembly; e.g., birth-day, marriage-feast less frequently of a festival): to celebrate a day as a festival, diem prosequi (Nep., Att., 4. extr.): a festival for three days, diem festum agere triduum or per triduum: public games, ludos facere or committere. To celebrate divine service, sacra procurare; sacris operari; res divinas rite perpetrare: but, in the modern sense, better *rebus divinis interesse (of the priests).