DEDICATE Copy link • DEDICATE 1. Consecrate, dicare; dedicare (whether to a god or a man): sacrare; consecrare (to a god; Vid: SYN. in CONSECRATE): inaugurare (to dedicate after consulting the augurs): to dedicate an altar to Jupiter, Jovi aram dicare (also aram dedicare, consecrare); a temple to a god, deo templum sacrare or consecrare; deo delubrum dedicare. Inscribe a book with anybody’s name; a book to anybody, alicui librum dicare or dedicare (used after Augustan age; Quint., Phaedrus, Plin.): librum ad aliquem mittere (to send a book to anybody, which Cic., uses as the customary phrase in his time for dicare and dedicare; Vid: Cat., Maj., 1, 3. N.D., 1, 7, 16: so librum mittere alicui; e.g., libros, quos Septimio misi, Var.); librum alicui despondere (to intend to dedicate it to; Cic., Att., 13, 12, 3).” Dedicated to M. Brutus” [on the title-page of a book], ad M. Brutum (without any participle). Give up to; devote to; dicare (e.g., hunc totum diem tibi, Cic.; tuum studium meae laudi, Cic.): to dedicate one’s self to anything, alicui rei se tradere, or se dedere; alicui rei operam dare: to dedicate one’s self to the service of the state, patriae se dedere, or se devovere rei publicae se tradere: to dedicate one’s self wholly to the service of the gods, totum se vertere in cultum deorum: to dedicate one’s time to anything, tempus consumere in aliqua re: one’s talents to anything, ingenium conferre ad aliquid. Vid: DEVOTE. 2. DEDICATED, dicatus: dedicatus: sacratus; consecratus; sacer (holy, as belonging to the gods). Devoted to, deditus alicui rei.