DEDICATION Copy link • DEDICATIONdedicatio (dedication of a thing): consecratio (dedication of a person; e.g., of a priest; Vid: INSCRIPPT., Grut. 303, 2. On the distinction between dedicatio and consecratio, Vid: CONSECRATE): cf., inauguratio is without classical authority: dicatio (Cic., ; not in this sense). Dedication of a book, *dedicatio.