Devote

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A devotee. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.

Synonyms: addict; apply; dedicate; consecrate; resign; destine; doom; consign. See Addict.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Devoted; addicted; devout. [Obs.] Milton.