devolve
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"Either the President must do it himself, and be all the while active in it, or "Devolve it on some member of his cabinet.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume I by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)
"Either the President must do it himself, and be all the while active in it, or "Devolve it on some member of his Cabinet.
From Great Britain and the American Civil War by Adams, Ephraim Douglass
Either the President must do it himself, and be all the while active in it, or Devolve it on some member of his Cabinet.
From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862 by Lincoln, Abraham
Either the President must do it himself, and be all the while active in it, or Devolve it on some member of his cabinet.
From A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History by Nicolay, John George
Devolve, de-volv′, v.t. to roll down: to hand down: to deliver over.—v.i. to roll down: to fall or pass over.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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