Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. devolv. [Latin , to roll.]
2. To roll down; to pour or flow with windings.
3. Through splendid kingdoms he devolves his maze.
4. To move from one person to another; to deliver over, or from one possessor to a successor.
5. The king devolved the care and disposition of affairs on the duke or Ormond.
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.
2. To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into.
Rolled down; passed over to another.
The act or process of devolving;; devolution.
Transfer Roget’s Thesaurus §783
N. transfer, conveyance, assignment, alienation, # abalienation, demise, limitation, conveyancing, transmission, enfeoffment, bargain and sale, lease and release, exchange, barter, substitution, succession, reversion, shifting use, shifting trust, devolution
V. transfer, convey, alienate, alien, assign, grant, consign, make over, hand over, pass, hand, transmit, negotiate, hand down, exchange, change hands, change hands from one to another, devolve, succeed, come into possession, abalienate, disinherit, dispossess, substitute
Phr. estate coming into possession
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