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Määritelmät
Verbi
- (intransitive) To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially through failure or loss of an earlier holder.
- (transitive) To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone.
- (especially of a central government to a local one, a federal one to a federated one, etc.) To transfer authority and responsibility for (something) to (another entity).
- (intransitive) To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.
- (especially of government authority) To shift or to be transferred from a central government to a local one, a federal one to a federated one, etc.
- (intransitive) To degenerate; to break down.
- (obsolete, transitive) To roll (something) down; to unroll.
Esimerkit
- every headlong stream / Devolves its winding waters to the main.
- He spake of virtue […] And with […] a lack-lustre dead-blue eye, Devolved his rounded periods.
- an accident […] rendered him permanently lame, and therefore unfitted him, in the opinion of his parents, to inherit his father's many titles, which, it was then arranged, should devolve upon his younger brother.
- They devolved their whole authority into the hands of the council of sixty.
- An artful man became popular, the people had power in their hands, and they devolved a considerable share of their power upon their favourite […].
- For the nonce he was rather nonplussed but inasmuch as the duty plainly devolved upon him to take some measures on the subject he pondered suitable ways and means during which Stephen repeatedly yawned.
- A discussion about politics may devolve into a shouting match.
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