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See devote.

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devove (third-person singular simple present devoves, present participle devoving, simple past and past participle devoved)

  1. (obsolete) To devote.
    • 1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis:
      Twas his own son, whom God and mankind lov'd , His own victorious son , that he devov'd

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for devove”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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dēvovē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of dēvoveō