Devote

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Devoted; addicted; devout.

II. Devote ·noun A Devotee.

III. Devote ·vt To Execrate; to Curse.

IV. Devote ·vt 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.

V. Devote ·vt 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.

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