All 16 Uses of
derive
in
The Divine Comedy -- translated by Cary
- It has been observed, that Dante derived the idea of opening his poem by describing himself as lost in a wood, from the Tesoretto of his master.†
Canto 1.N. *
- According to Landino, our poet implies that the usurer can pretend to no other honour, than such as he derives from his purse and his family. v. 57.†
Canto 1.N.
- From Manto Mantua, the country of Virgil derives its name.†
Canto 1.N.
- The name of Polenta was derived from a castle so called in the neighbourhood of Brittonoro.†
Canto 1.N.
- ] It can scarcely be doubted but that Milton derived his description of Satan in those lines, Each passion dimm'd his face Thrice chang'd with pale, ire, envy, and despair.†
Canto 1.N.
- Blood, concocted well, Which by the thirsty veins is ne'er imbib'd, And rests as food superfluous, to be ta'en From the replenish'd table, in the heart Derives effectual virtue, that informs The several human limbs, as being that, Which passes through the veins itself to make them.†
Canto 2.23-33
- Perhaps some illustration may be derived from the following, passage in South's Sermons, in which I have ventured to supply the words between crotchets that seemed to be wanting to complete the sense.†
Canto 2.N
- ] It is literally, "Your apprehensive faculty derives intention from a thing really existing, and displays the intention within you, so that it makes the soul turn to it."†
Canto 2.N
- Much of the knowledge displayed by our Poet in the present Canto appears to have been derived from the medical work o+ Averroes, called the Colliget.†
Canto 2.N
- From this perplexity will free thee soon Experience, if thereof thou trial make, The fountain whence your arts derive their streame.†
Canto 3.1-11
- Thus do these organs of the world proceed, As thou beholdest now, from step to step, Their influences from above deriving, And thence transmitting downwards.†
Canto 3.1-11
- Nor with oracular response obscure, Such, as or ere the Lamb of God was slain, Beguil'd the credulous nations; but, in terms Precise and unambiguous lore, replied The spirit of paternal love, enshrin'd, Yet in his smile apparent; and thus spake: "Contingency, unfolded not to view Upon the tablet of your mortal mold, Is all depictur'd in the' eternal sight; But hence deriveth not necessity, More then the tall ship, hurried down the flood, Doth from the vision, that reflects the scene.†
Canto 3.12-22
- Justice consists in consonance with it, Derivable by no created good, Whose very cause depends upon its beam.†
Canto 3.12-22
- All that appears certain, is what we are told in this Canto, that he was of Genoa, and by Petrarch in the Triumph of Love, c. iv. that he was better known by the appellation he derived from Marseilles, and at last resumed the religious habit.†
Canto 3.N
- This family was so little esteemed, that Ubertino Donato, who had married a daughter of Bellincion Berti, himself indeed derived from the same stock (see Note to Hell Canto XVI.†
Canto 3.N
- ] The light of the sun, whence he supposes the other celestial bodies to derive their light v. 8.†
Canto 3.N
Definition:
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(derive) to get something from something else
(If the context doesn't otherwise indicate where something came from, it is generally from reasoning--especially deductive reasoning.)