dedicatory

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Lincoln’s speech, simply described in the day’s official program as Dedicatory Remarks, lasted less than three minutes.

From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2019

"Hobbes' State of Nature, considered, in a Dialogue between Philautus and Timothy;" the "Epistle Dedicatory" is signed, J.E. 4th.

From Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850 by Various

For instance, Jeremy Taylor in that way, or by his Epistles Dedicatory, has brought out the characteristic features in some of his own patrons, whom else we should have known only as nominis umbras.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

Also, Epistle Dedicatory, prefixed to his translation of The Irish Histories of Giraldus Cambrensis, and his Continuation of the Chronicles of Ireland, in ii.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)

Our author," the Dedicatory Epistle says, and says truly, "missed both rocks against which many have split their vessels.

From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Jones, Rufus Matthew