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.
Thy servant who is devoted to thy fear. Ps. cxix. 38.
They devoted themselves unto all wickedness. Grew.
A leafless and simple branch . . . devoted to the purpose of
climbing. Gray.
Syn. — To addict; apply; dedicate; consecrate; resign; destine; doom; consign. See Addict.
DEVOTE
De*vote", a. Etym: [L. devotus, p. p.]
Defn: Devoted; addicted; devout. [Obs.] Milton.
DEVOTE
De*vote", n.
Defn: A devotee. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.
DEVOTED
De*vot"ed, a.