devoverant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →devoveo, devovere, devovi, devotus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
devote, consecrate; vow, promise solemnly; mark out, appoint; curse, execrate;; dedicate to infernal gods (general/army); destine, doom; bewitch, enchant;
pl. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Alcibiades
Cornelius Nepos
"...venerat, Eumolpidas sacerdotes a populo coactos, ut se devoverent, eiusque devotionis, quo testatior esset memoria, exemplum in pila..."Liber IX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...patria praeclaram esse fateor et me vel devovere pro populo Romano legionibusque vel in medios me immittere hostes..."Liber VIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quem velit ex legione Romana scripta civem devovere; si is homo qui devotus est moritur, probe factum videri..."Liber VI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...omnia parentum beneficia ab illo se habere; illi devovere corporis vitaeque ac sanguinis quod supersit; quodcumque sibi..."