Devote: alternatives and connections

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

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The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

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To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…

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To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

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To engage in continuous thought; to think.

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To inclose; to infold.

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To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.

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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities.

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To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…

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Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

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A solemn promise made to God, or to some deity; an act by which one consecrates or devotes himself, absolutely or conditionally, wholly or in part, f…

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To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

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Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

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Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.

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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

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