Part 3049

<blockquote>They are entirely at our <b>devotion</b>, and may be turned backward and forward, as we please. <i>Godwin.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A thing consecrated; an object of devotion.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Churches and altars, priests and all <b>devotions</b>, Tumbled together into rude chaos. <i>Beau. & Fl.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Days of devotion</col>. <cd>See under <er>Day</er>.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Consecration; devoutness; religiousness; piety; attachment; devotedness; ardor; earnestness.</syn>

<h1>Devotional</h1> <Xpage=404>

<hw>De*vo"tion*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>devotionalis</ets>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; <as>as, a <ex>devotional</ex> posture; <ex>devotional</ex> exercises; a <ex>devotional</ex> frame of mind.</as></def>

<h1>Devotionalist, Devotionist</h1> <Xpage=404>

<hw><hw>De*vo"tion*al*ist</hw>, <hw>De*vo"tion*ist</hw>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <def>One given to devotion, esp. to excessive formal devotion.</def>

<h1>Devotionality</h1> <Xpage=404>

<hw>De*vo`tion*al"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The practice of a devotionalist.</def>

<i>A. H. Clough.</i>

<h1>Devotionally</h1> <Xpage=404>

<hw>De*vo"tion*al*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a devotional manner; toward devotion.</def>

<h1>Devoto</h1> <Xpage=404>

<hw>De*vo"to</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[It.]</ety> <def>A devotee.</def>

<i>Dr. J. Scott.</i>

<h1>Devotor</h1> <Xpage=404>

<hw>De*vo"tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>A worshiper; one given to devotion.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Beau. & Fl.</i>

<h1>Devour</h1> <Xpage=404>

<hw>De*vour"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Devoured</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Devouring</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>d\'82vorer</ets>, fr. L. <ets>devorare</ets>; <ets>de</ets> + <ets>vorare</ets> to eat greedily, swallow up. See <er>Voracious</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.</def>

<blockquote>Some evil beast hath <b>devoured</b> him. <i>Gen. xxxvii. 20.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.</def>

<blockquote>Famine and pestilence shall <b>devour</b> him. <i>Ezek. vii. 15.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I waste my life and do my days <b>devour</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.</def>