adj devoted; addicted; devout.
2. devote ·noun a devotee.
3. devote ·vt to execrate; to curse.
4. 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.
5. 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.