Assert and Dedicate

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

verb

• Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
  • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • synonyms: give, consecrate, commit, devote
• Open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building.
  • usage: "The Beauty Queen spends her time dedicating parks and nursing homes"
• Inscribe or address by way of compliment.
  • usage: "She dedicated her book to her parents"
• Set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church. .

• (v.t.) To set apart and consecrate, as to a divinity or for sacred uses; to devote formally and solemnly; as, to dedicate vessels, treasures, a temple or a church, to a religious use.
• (v.t.) To inscribe or address, as to a patron.
• (v.t.) To devote, set apart or give up, as one's self, to a duty or service.
• (p.a.) Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.

To appropriate private property to public ownership for a public use.