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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Commemorate \Com*mem"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Commemorated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Commemorating}.] [L.
     commemoratus, p. p. of commemorare to remember; com- +
     memorare to mention, fr. memor mindful. See {Memory}.]
     To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to
     celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or


     event, by some act of respect or affection, intended to
     preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to
     commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by
     the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; to commemorate the
     Declaration of Independence by the observance of the Fourth
     of July.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           We are called upon to commemorate a revolution.
                                                    --Atterbury.
  
     Syn: See {Celebrate}.
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