Word Meanings - DEVOLVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To roll onward or downward; to pass on. Every headlong stream Devolves its winding waters to the main. Akenside. Devolved his rounded periods. Tennyson. 2. To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with

Additional info about word: DEVOLVE

1. To roll onward or downward; to pass on. Every headlong stream Devolves its winding waters to the main. Akenside. Devolved his rounded periods. Tennyson. 2. To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into. They devolved a considerable share of their power upon their favorite. Burke. They devolved their whole authority into the hands of the council of sixty. Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEVOLVE)

• Entail
• Bequeath
• leave
• devolve
• demise
• involve
• necessitate
• induce

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEVOLVE)

• Slave
• prevent
• disincline
• dissuade

Related words: (words related to DEVOLVE)

• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• BEQUEATH
  1. To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property. My heritage, which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak. 2. To hand down; to transmit. To bequeath posterity somewhat to remember it. Glanvill. 3. To
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• ENTAIL
  incision, fr. entailler to cut away; pref. en- + tailler to cut; LL. feudum talliatum a fee entailed, i. e., curtailed or 1. That which is entailed. Hence: An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue. The rule
• DEVOLVEMENT
  The act or process of devolving;; devolution.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• LEAVENING
  1. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven. 2. That which leavens or makes light. Bacon.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• SLAVEOCRACY
  See SLAVOCRACY
• SLAVEHOLDING
  Holding persons in slavery.
• PREVENTABILITY
  The quality or state of being preventable.
• LEAVELESS
  Leafless. Carew.
• NECESSITATE
  1. To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable. Sickness necessitate his removal from the court. South. This fact necessitates a second line. J. Peile. 2. To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel. The Marquis of Newcastle,
• BEQUEATHABLE
  Capable of being bequeathed.
• BEQUEATHMENT
  The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest.
• LEAVEN
  alleviation, mitigation; but taken in the sense of, a raising, that 1. Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough,
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• CLEAVER
  One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
• REINDUCE
  To induce again.
• ENSLAVEMENT
  The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.
• FIVE-LEAFED; FIVE-LEAVED
  Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.
• ENSLAVEDNESS
  State of being enslaved.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.