devovit
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;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...optabile fuisse fatearis? Decius se pro re publica devovit et in medios hostes concitato equo mortem petens irruit..."Liber VIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...esse. Sin autem sese devovere volet, sicuti Decius devovit, ni moritur, neque suum neque publicum divinum pure faciet..."