dedicatory

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dedicatory (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to dedication.
    a dedicatory letter; a dedicatory inscription

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dedicatory (plural dedicatories)

  1. A dedication.
    • 1642, John Milton, An apology against a pamphlet call’d A modest confutation of the animadversions upon the remonstrant against Smectymnuus[1], London: John Rothwell, page 7:
      [] I conceit him to be neere a kin to him who set forth a Passion Sermon with a formall Dedicatory in great letters to our Saviour.