All 4 Uses
derive
in
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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- She decided to go to the Comedia where the Perichole was playing Dona Leonor in Moreto's Trampa Addante; perhaps some material could be derived from the visit for her daughter's next letter.†
Chpt 2derived = got
- Such persons are raised up in every age; they obstinately insist on transporting their grains of wheat and they derive a certain exhilaration from the sneers of the bystanders.†
Chpt 2 *derive = get
- But even then Camila, convinced in her pride that he pitied her, lashed him with the blade of her tongue and derived some strange comfort from heaping him with sneers.†
Chpt 4derived = got
- He was possessed of all the bitterness that Brother Juniper lacked and derived a sort of joy from the conviction that all was wrong in the world.†
Chpt 5
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)