All 8 Uses
derive
in
Dante's Purgatory -- translated by Norton
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- [1] Herodotus (i. 214) tells how Tomyris, Queen of the Massagetae, having defeated and slain Cyrus, filled a skin full of human blood, and plunged his head in it with words such as Dante reports, and which he derived from Orosius, Histor†
Canto 12-22derived = got
- All this is a doctrine derived directly from St. Thomas Aquinas.†
Canto 12-22
- This is the principle wherefrom is derived the reason of desert in you, according as it gathers in and winnows good and evil loves.†
Canto 12-22
- [6] The Lavagna, from which stream the Fieschi derived their title of Counts of Lavagna†
Canto 12-22
- This one who guides my eyes on high is that Virgil from whom thou didst derive the strength to sing of men and of the gods.†
Canto 12-22 *derive = get
- [1] The doctrine set forth by Statius in the following discourse is derived from St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theol†
Canto 23-33derived = got
- , i. 118, 119, who, in his turn, derived it from Aristotle.†
Canto 23-33
- The conception is derived from Plato; but the form given to it is peculiar to Dante.†
Canto 23-33
Definitions:
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(1)
(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.) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)