commemorating

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com·mem·o·rate

(kə-mĕm′ə-rāt′)

tr.v. com·mem·o·rat·ed, com·mem·o·rat·ing, com·mem·o·rates

1. To honor the memory of (a person or event, for example), especially with a ceremony. See Synonyms at observe.

2. To serve as a memorial to: The statue commemorates the discovery of anesthesia.

[Latin commemorāre, commemorāt-, to remind : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + memorāre, to remind (from memor, mindful; see (s)mer- in Indo-European roots).]

com·mem′o·ra′tor n.

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Adj.

commemorating - intended as a commemoration; "a commemorative plaque"

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(7) An act of communion -- the drinking of the potion here described -- was one of the most important pieces of ritual in the Eleusinian mysteries, as commemorating the sorrows of the goddess.

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