devow

From French dévouer, Latin devovere. See devote (transitive verb).

devow (third-person singular simple present devows, present participle devowing, simple past and past participle devowed)

1. (obsolete) To give up; to devote.
2. (obsolete) To disavow; to disclaim.
   • 1610, Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victorie and Triumph, in Heaven, in Earth, over and after Death

     That should have been for sacred vengeance thrown:
     Thereto the armies angelic devow'd

devow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• vowed