dedicatory
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Lincoln’s speech, simply described in the day’s official program as Dedicatory Remarks, lasted less than three minutes.
From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2019
The "Epistle Dedicatory," signed "J.E.," mentioned by Mr. Wyatt as prefixed to the Dialogue on Hobbes' State of Nature, refers also to the five subsequent letters.
From Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850 by Various
For instance, Jeremy Taylor in that way, or by his Epistles Dedicatory, has brought out the characteristic features in some of his own patrons, whom else we should have known only as nominis umbras.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
This great and learned Man was famous for enlivening his ordinary Discourses with Wit and Pleasantry; and, as Erasmus tells him in an Epistle Dedicatory, acted in all parts of Life like a second Democritus.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
The Epistle Dedicatory to Oroonoko was printed as an Appendix.
From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Summers, Montague
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