资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.