0 past simple and past participle of commemorate
1 to remember officially and give respect to a great person or event, especially by a public ceremony or by making a statue or special building:
Although the first three (and sometimes all four) of those events are commemorated in the rosary and associated devotional texts, their liturgical celebration does not follow the familiar narrative.
These associations gave such structures sacred qualities, so that their locations were commemorated long thereafter by a series of later buildings constructed over the same location.
The tablets commemorated the dates of the enclosure act, the role of the council, the date of the arboretum and the names of the enclosure committee.
The crusade was commemorated with lavish ceremonies and stunning dances.
While most indulgences were quite probably issued shortly after the deaths of the people they commemorated, long gaps are evident.
Even where a family cannot be reconstructed, groups of kin were clearly being commemorated together.
Annual memory books commemorated the city's architectural monuments by depicting them in isolation from the urban landscape, with no concern for their situation or surroundings.
Only the date linked the statement to the actual event commemorated, which again required knowledge of local history on the part of the viewer.
