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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
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