0 present 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 disruptive from the point of view of heritage preservation, these two popular practices follow the established conventions of commemorating or advertising a superior achievement.
Among these are volumes commemorating deceased persons which are distributed to participants at cremation ceremonies.
Funeral monuments were most adept in commemorating bishops where the tombs had some curious distinction.
Second, its annual festivals and those commemorating the spirits of the military dead are important rituals for the shrine.
At times, too, she over-simplifies, for example in discussing the role of the ' ' state ' ' in commemorating the dead.
In 1984, the organization published a special newsletter commemorating the events of 1979.
Centennial gatherings consisting overwhelmingly of men commemorating armed men are clearly not the best way of analysing the monstrous toll that military manhood has exacted of non-combatants.
Rothfels's sentiments were widely echoed in contemporary press accounts commemorating the tenth anniversary of the end of the war.
