D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Commemorate

/kəm-ĕm'-ẽr-ātˌ/ · Com·mem·o·rate · IPA /kəˈmɛməˌɹeɪt/
01 v. t. 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 o…
imp. & p. p. Commemorated; p. pr. & vb. n. Commemorating
  1. 1.
    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.
    “We are called upon to commemorate a revolution.” Atterbury.
Syn. See Celebrate.