Delegate and Devolve

delegate

Transfer power to someone.
- synonyms: depute
Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person. ).
- synonyms: designate, depute, assign

(n.) One sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating officers or for forming or altering a constitution.
(n.) Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.
(n.) One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.
(v.t.) To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.
(v.t.) To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.
(a.) Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

devolve

Pass on or delegate to another.
- usage: "The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital"
Be inherited by.
- usage: "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
- synonyms: fall, return, pass
Grow worse.
- usage: "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
- synonyms: deteriorate, drop, degenerate

(v.t.) To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into.
(v.t.) To roll onward or downward; to pass on.
(v.i.) 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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

To pass on or delegate to another, e. G. A' DEVOLVE'd letter of credit.