All 3 Uses of
commemorate
in
Bleak House
- It consists of a limp and ugly figure carried in a chair by two bearers and attended by a lean female with a face like a pinched mask, who might be expected immediately to recite the popular verses commemorative of the time when they did contrive to blow Old England up alive but for her keeping her lips tightly and defiantly closed as the chair is put down.†
Chpt 25-27
- Quartered in this dingy hatchment commemorative of Symond are the legal bearings of Mr. Vholes.†
Chpt 37-39 *
- The auspicious event is always commemorated according to certain forms settled and prescribed by Mr. Bagnet some years since.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(commemorate) mark by some ceremony or observation -- especially the memory of something