neuter plural of a presumed compound from G1722 and G2537; innovatives, i.e. (specially) renewal (of religious services after the Antiochian interruption):--dedication.
dedication, consecration
in particular the annual feast celebrated eight days beginning in the 25th of Chislev (middle of our December), instituted by Judas Maccabaeus [164 BC] in memory of the cleansing of the temple from the pollution of Antiochus Epiphanes
