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1 definition found 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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