Word Meanings - DEVOLUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To devolve. Foxe.

DEVOLVEMENT
The act or process of devolving;; devolution.
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