dedicator
- a word derived from dedicate.
Example Sentences
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The dedicator does not disgrace himself by descending to that fulsome adulatory style which was then too frequently employed in addressing the great.
From The Koran (Al-Qur'an) by Sale, George
What more would the dedicator have wished Thomson to say?
From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by Richardson, David Lester
I hope, therefore, the present I now presume to make, will not be thought improper; which, however, it is not my business as a dedicator to commend, nor as a bookseller to depreciate.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
In 1758, he exhibited the Old Man’s Relapse, in more than words, by again becoming a dedicator, and publishing a sermon addressed to the king.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel
The second was built by Sulla, but the name of Catulus appears as its dedicator, for Sulla died before it was completed.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey
