Definition of devote

• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - To execrate; to curse.
• v. t. - 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.
• a. - Devoted; addicted; devout.
• n. - A devotee.