Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Devote

Devote , transitive verb

[Latin devotus, past participle of devovere; de + vovere to vow. See Vow, and compare 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. [Obsolete]
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.
Thy servant who is devoted to thy fear. — Bible (KJV) - Psalm cxix. 38
They devoted themselves unto all wickedness. — Grew
A leafless and simple branch... devoted to the purpose of climbing. — Gray

Devote , adjective

[Latin devotus, p. p.]

Devoted; addicted; devout. [Obsolete] — Milton

Devote , noun

A devotee. [Obsolete] — Sir E. Sandys