Devolve vs Authorize - What's the difference?
devolve | authorize |
(obsolete) To roll (something) down; to unroll.
* 1744 , (Mark Akenside), The Pleasures of the Imagination , II:
* 1830 , , Character :
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.
* 1932 , (Duff Cooper), Talleyrand , Folio Society 2010, p. 4:
To delegate (a responsibility, duty etc.) (on) or (upon) someone.
* 1704 , (Joseph Addison), Remarks on Several Parts of Italy :
* 1756 , (Edmund Burke), A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful :
To fall as a duty or responsibility (on) or (upon) someone.
* , Episode 16:
To degenerate; to break down.
To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something).
To permit (something), to sanction or consent to (something).
In transitive terms the difference between devolve and authorize
is that devolve is to delegate (a responsibility, duty etc.) {{term|on}} or {{term|upon}} someone while authorize is to permit (something), to sanction or consent to (something).As verbs the difference between devolve and authorize
is that devolve is to roll (something) down; to unroll while authorize is to grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something).devolve
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Verb
(en-verb)- 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.
Anagrams
* ----authorize
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Alternative forms
* authorise (British) * authourise (rare) * authourize (rare)Verb
(authoriz)- The General Assembly authorized the Council to take up the matter.
- The judge authorized the wiretapping.