n. The act of consecrating to a deity or to a sacred use with appropriate solemnities; a solemn appropriation or setting apart: as, the dedication of a church.n. The act of devoting with solemnity or earnestness of feeling to any purpose.n. The act of inscribing or addressing a literary or an artistic work to a patron, friend, or public character.n. An address prefixed to a literary or musical composition, inscribed to a patron, as a means of recommending the work to his protection and favor, or, as now usually, to a private friend or to a public character, as a mark of affection or respect.n. In law, a voluntary surrender or abandonment of property by the owner to public use, as of land, by consenting to the making of a highway upon it, or of an invention, by neglect to patent, it.