Both Uses of
commemorate
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Three nails driven into the head commemorated as many crises in Maggie's nine years of earthly struggle; that luxury of vengeance having been suggested to her by the picture of Jael destroying Sisera in the old Bible.†
Chpt 1.4
- "And General Wolfe, Mr. Poulter,—wasn't he a wonderful fighter?" said Tom, who held the notion that all the martial heroes commemorated on the public-house signs were engaged in the war with Bony.†
Chpt 2.4 *
Definition:
to honor or remember someone or something -- especially through a ceremony or symbol