Word Finder - celebrating

definition

To extol or honour in a solemn manner.

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to celebrate the name of the Most High

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• fete

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To honour by rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly.

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to celebrate a birthday

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• keep
• observe

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To engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event.

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I was promoted today at work—let’s celebrate!

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To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to perform with appropriate rites.

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to celebrate a marriage

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• solemnize

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Celebration

Celebrating birthdays is an important part of Western culture, not observed in some parts of the world.

The Turks were celebrating the feast of Bahram at the end of the Ramadan fast.

Francis owes the greater measure of his glory to the artists and men of letters who vied in celebrating his praises.

Everybody was celebrating the victory, everything was bubbling with life in the ruined but reviving city.

Men vied with each other in celebrating Diane's beauty, which, if we may judge from her portraits, has been slightly exaggerated.

Larry and I are very tired after staying up late last night celebrating the New Year, but it was worth it to see the fireworks.

The empire was celebrating the 1000th anniversary of its birth, and imperial aspirations and ideas were naturally prominent.

After celebrating a triumph in Rome (389) he stayed to arrange the government of Italy for another two years.

I am looking forward to celebrating our 20th anniversary in Hawaii soon!

I thought I was gonna need funny hats and party favors for the celebrating going on around here.

For an hour afterward, the celebrating and congratulations diverted their attention from each other.

Its obvious inconvenience for celebrating the holy mysteries, however, caused its gradual modification.

The students burst into cheers, celebrating the announcement that school was to be cancelled tomorrow due to snow.

The vestments worn by the priest when celebrating mass are then the most important.

Finally, the pope, when celebrating mass, wears the same vestments as an ordinary bishop, with the addition of the subcinctorium, a dalmatic, worn over the tunicle and under the chasuble, and the orale or fanone.

Most of them, except when actually celebrating mass, were indistinguishable alike in costume and conduct from the temporal magnates.

He refrained from public preaching, but held conferences in St Mark's with large gatherings of his disciples, and defied the interdict on Christmas Day by publicly celebrating mass and heading a procession through the cloisters.

Though it was an attempt to bring into line with the reforming party both those who still inclined to the old faith and the anabaptist section, its publication provoked a good deal of controversy, especially on its statements concerning the Eucharist, and the people of Strassburg even reproached those of Basel with celebrating a Christless supper.

A fresh charter was granted in 1207 by King John to the inhabitants of Dublin, who had not yet made their peace with the neighbourhood, but, like the settlers in other towns, were at constant feud with the native Irish; so that two years after the date of this charter, whilst the citizens of Dublin were celebrating Easter at Cullenswood, they were set upon by the Irish of the neighbouring mountains, and 500 of them killed.

By the 13th century, with the final development of the ritual of the Mass, the chasuble became definitely fixed as the vestment of the celebrating priest; though to this day in the Roman Church relics of the earlier general use of the chasuble survive in the planeta plicata worn by deacons and subdeacons in Lent and Advent, and other penitential seasons.

So Early As The Znd Century Of Our Era, Great Disputes Had Arisen Among The Christians Respecting The Proper Time Of Celebrating Easter, Which Governs All The Other Movable Feasts.

The Epacts Are Also Placed So As To Indicate The Full Moons Generally One Or Two Days After The True Full Moons; But This Was Done Purposely, To Avoid The Chance Of Concurring With The Jewish Passover, Which The Framers Of The Calendar Seem To Have Considered A Greater Evil Than That Of Celebrating Easter A Week Too Late.

The treasures of the dragon's hoard are buried with his ashes; and when the great mound is finished, twelve of Beowulf's most famous warriors ride around it, celebrating the praises of the bravest, gentlest and most generous of kings.

It begins by celebrating the ancient glories of the Danes, tells in allusive style the story of Scyld, the founder of the " Scylding " dynasty of Denmark, and praises the virtues of his son Beowulf.

To such an extent did Bishop von Ketteler carry his opposition, that in 1874 he forbade his clergy to take part in celebrating the anniversary of the battle of Sedan, and declared the Rhine to be a "Catholic river."

Before you know it, you'll be celebrating birthday number two!

Celebrating Mother's Day with a birthstone necklace is a lovely way to mark the day.

The tradition of celebrating the new year in the spring continued until 153 BC when the Roman senate adopted January 1 as the first day of the new year.

Whether you're throwing a party for a group of children or celebrating an Irish themed wedding, there are all kinds of fun party favors that can encompass your theme and suit the occasion.

Understanding how to plan a 16th birthday party is winning half the battle of celebrating your teen's day the way she wants you to.

Planning and hosting an Easter dinner party is an excellent way to honor your friends and family while celebrating the holiday.

That's where the kids sometimes go, and after the water fight we figured they'd be celebrating.

Then he added, "and tell us why you're celebrating."

That's what I'm celebrating.

Elisabeth asked, "What are we celebrating?"

I guess he was celebrating.

Five miles from Norfolk and with Norfolk as its headquarters was held from the 26th of April to the 30th of November 1907 the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, celebrating the first permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown, Virginia.

Thus Bede records that in a certain year (which must have been 645, 647, 648 or 651) Queen Eanfleda, who had received her instruction from a Kentish priest of the Roman obedience, was fasting and keeping Palm Sunday, while her husband, Oswy, king of Northumbria, following the rule of the British church, was celebrating the Easter festival.

While we have elsewhere no connected account of this, Justin's Apology contains a few paragraphs (61 seq.), which give a vivid description of the public worship of the Church and its method of celebrating the sacraments (Baptism and the Eucharist).

Although the poets of the time are unwearied in celebrating her charms, she does not, from the portraits which exist, appear to have been regularly beautiful, but as to her sweetness of disposition and strength of mind there is universal consent.

The interruption of preachers when celebrating divine service rendered the offender liable to three months' imprisonment under a statute of the first year of Mary, but Friends generally waited to speak till the service was over.'

In the early days each church confined itself to celebrating its own martyrs; but it was not long before it became customary to celebrate the anniversaries of martyrs of other churches.

A purple toga with embroidery (toga pieta) was worn together with a gold-embroidered tunic (tunica palmata) by generals while celebrating a triumph and by magistrates presiding at games; it represented the traditional dress of the kings and was adopted by Julius Caesar as a permanent costume.

Information was given him in the spring of 212 (two years from the commencement of the siege) that the Syracusans were celebrating a great festival to Artemis; making use of this opportunity, he forced the Hexapylum entrance by night and established himself in Tyche and on the heights of Epipolae.

The long poem celebrating the triumph of Christ and His saints was called forth by the favour shown him by Pope Leo VII., during whose pontificate he visited Rome, and he devotes fourteen books to the history of the popes.

It may be regarded as certain that among Jewish Christians it almost imperceptibly grew out of the old habit of annually celebrating the Passover on the 14th of Nisan, and of observing the "days of unleavened bread" from the 15th to the 21st of that month.

The surplus proceeds of the property were further to be applied to maintain a yearly offering in commemoration of his departed father, mother and brothers, to pay the expenses incurred in celebrating his own birthday every year on the 7th of the month Gamelion, and for a social gathering of the sect on the 10th of every month in honour of himself and Metrodorus.

It may have been a piece of folk-song celebrating the prowess of the tribe of Lamech; or it may have had some relation to a story of Cain and Abel in which Cain was a hero and not a villain.

He had to contend with Count Leudast, the governor of Tours; despite all the king's threats, he refused to give up Chilperic's son Meroving, who had sought refuge from his father's wrath at the sanctuary of St Martin; and he defended Bishop Pretextatus against Chilperic, by whom he had been condemned for celebrating the marriage of Merovech and Queen Brunhilda.

Rudolph of Ems about 1220 expanded it into a long poem of 16,000 lines, celebrating the victory of Christian over heathen teaching.