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Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious. A devout man, and one that feared God. Acts x. 2. We must be constant and devout in the worship of God. Rogers.

To devote. [Obs.] Cowley.

To give up; to devote. [Obs.]

That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects. Beck.

Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service. That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in; and the best of me is diligence. Shak.

The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates without any nominating convention, and, loosely, to the nomination effe…

To deprive of membership. [Obs.] They were dismembered by vote of the house. R. North.

To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question.

of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote. The motion passed without a division. Macaulay.

Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.

Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.

Of, pertaining to, or devoted to, Egyptology.

To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor.

the right of choice; a person who is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor of a candidate for office.

The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate of Great Britain. M. Arnold.

st employ the sturdy steer To turn the glebe. Dryden. To employ one's self, to apply or devote one's time and attention; to busy one's self.

To embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to engage in controversy.

One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table.

to instance. [Obs.] "I may example my digression by some mighty precedent." Shak. Burke devoted himself to this duty with a fervid assiduity that has not often been exampled, and has never been surpassed. J. Morley.

n. [Slang, Eng.] Fagot iron, iron, in bars or masses, manufactured from fagots. -- Fagot vote, the vote of a person who has been constituted a voter by being made a landholder, for party purposes. [Political cant, Eng.]