COMMEMORATE

vt to call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect or affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our savior by the sacrament of the lord's supper; to commemorate the declaration of independence by the observance of the fourth of july.