Hypertext Webster Gateway: "devote"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Devote \De*vote"\, a. [L. devotus, p. p.]
Devoted; addicted; devout. [Obs.] --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Devote \De*vote"\, n.
A devotee. [Obs.] --Sir E. Sandys.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Devote \De*vote"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Devoted}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Devoting}.] [L. devotus, p. p. of devovere; de + vovere
to vow. See {Vow}, and cf. {Devout}, {Devow}.]
1. To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a
solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom;
to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was
devoted to the flames.

No devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the
Lord . . . shall be sold or redeemed. --Lev. xxvii.
28.

2. To execrate; to curse. [Obs.]

3. To give up wholly; to addict; to direct the attention of
wholly or compound; to attach; -- often with a reflexive
pronoun; as, to devote one's self to science, to one's
friends, to piety, etc.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

devote
v 1: give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause; "She
committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's
talents to a good cause" [syn: {give}, {dedicate}, {commit}]
2: as in the expressions "give thought to"; "give priority to",
etc. [syn: {give}, {pay}]


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