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A salt of moric acid.

ct of affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; to commemorate the Declaration of Independence by the observance of the Fourth of July. We are called upon to commemorate a revolution. Atte…

Enamored. Chapman. -- In*am"o*rate*ly, adv. [R.]

Variegated like marble; covered or overlaid with marble. [R.]

To commemorate. [Obs.]

To recall something by means of memory; to remember. [Obs.] Bryskett.

To hinder; to delay. [Obs.] Johnson.

mental structure resembling an arched gateway, with one or more passages, erected to commemorate a triumph.

T. Browne. Ascension Day, the Thursday but one before Whitsuntide, the day on which commemorated our Savior's ascension into heaven after his resurrection; -- called also Holy Thursday. -- Right ascension (Astron.), that degree of the equinoctial, counted from the beginning of Aries, which rises with a star, or other…

Worthy to be commemorated.

Tending or intended to commemorate. "A sacrifice commemorative of Christ's offering up his body for us." Hammond. An inscription commemorative of his victory. Sir G. C. Lewis.

One who commemorates.

Serving to commemorate; commomerative. Bp. Hooper.

of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated.

he East to Bethlehem, to see and worship the child Jesus; or, as others maintain, to commemorate the appearance of the star to the Magi, symbolizing the manifestation of Christ to the Gentles; Twelfthtide.

To commemorate by an epitaph. [R.] Let me be epitaphed the inventor of English hexameters. G. Harvey.

udas Maccabæus, his brothers, and the whole congregation of Israel, in 165 b. c., to commemorate the dedication of the new altar set up at the purification of the temple of Jerusalem to replace the altar which had been polluted by Antiochus Epiphanes (1 Maccabees i. 58, iv. 59). The feast, which is mentioned in John x.…

-- Holy Week (Eccl.), the week before Easter, in which the passion of our Savior is commemorated. -- Holy writ, the sacred Scriptures. " Word of holy writ." Wordsworth.

A morate.

A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb.