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Definition of Commemorates
1. commemorate [v] - See also: commemorate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commemorates
Literary usage of Commemorates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"John the Evangelist, St. The Church commemorates the death-day of this saint on
December 27, and fixes the year ST. JOHN RECEIVED AT THE TEMPLE. ..."
2. The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1903)
"... the W. of the Zoological Gardens commemorates the 'Schützenfeste', or national
rifle competitions, held at Frankfort in 1862 and 1887. e. Sachsenhausen. ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"... signifies a monastery, and the name usually commemorates the site of one of
these Buddhist institutions. Bihar. ..."
4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1880)
"Next to this monument on the south is one which commemorates Francis, the second
Earl, and his first wife, Margaret St. John. It' is much inferior to that ..."
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