commemorating

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commemorating - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  commemorating \commemorating\ adj.
     of or pertaining to a commemoration; serving to commemorate.
  
     Syn: commemorative.
          [WordNet 1.5]

  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.
          [1913 Webster]

commemorating - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  commemorating
      adj 1: intended as a commemoration; "a commemorative plaque"
             [syn: commemorative, commemorating]