DEVOLVE
\dɪvˈɒlv], \dɪvˈɒlv], \d_ɪ_v_ˈɒ_l_v]\
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To roll onward or downward; to pass on.
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To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; - generally with upon, sometimes with to or into.
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To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; - generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank.
By Oddity Software
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To roll onward or downward; to pass on.
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To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; - generally with upon, sometimes with to or into.
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To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; - generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank.
By Noah Webster.
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To hand on or down; to pass or transfer from one to another; transmit; as, to devolve a duty upon another.
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To be handed down or over; to be transferred or transmitted; as, the duty devolved upon him.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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sir richard blackmore
- An English physician poet; born in Wiltshire about 1650; died 1729. Besides medical works, Scripture paraphrases, satirical verse, he wrote Popian couplets "Prince Arthur, a Heroic Poem"(1695), and voluminous religious epic, "The Creation"(1712), very successful much praised then, but not now read.