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English Dictionary: devote	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for devote
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
devote v 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"; "consecrate your life to the church" Synonym(s): give, dedicate, consecrate, commit, devote dedicate; "give thought to"; "give priority to"; "pay attention to" Synonym(s): give, pay, devote set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use; "this land was devoted to mining"
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 \Devote"\, 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.