Commemorate

kom-em′o-rāt, v.t. to call to remembrance by a solemn or public act: to celebrate: to preserve the memory of.— adj. Commem′orable .— n. Commemorā′tion , preserving the memory of some person or thing by a solemn ceremony: the specification of individual saints in the prayers for the dead: the great festival of the Oxford academic year, usually taking place on the third Wednesday after Trinity Sunday.— adjs. Commem′orative , Commem′oratory , tending or serving to commemorate.— n. Commem′orator . [L. com me morat us , pa.p. of commemorāre , to remember— com , inten., and mem or , mindful.]