All 18 Uses
derive
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Ben Hur
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- "My people," he continued, "were given wholly to study, and from them I derived the same passion.†
Chpt 1.3derived = got
- From them were derived the Upa-Vedas, which, delivered by Brahma, treat of medicine, archery, architecture, music, and the four-and-sixty mechanical arts; the Ved-Angas, revealed by inspired saints, and devoted to astronomy, grammar, prosody, pronunciation, charms and incantations, religious rites and ceremonies; the Up-Angas, written by the sage Vyasa, and given to cosmogony, chronology, and geography; therein also are the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, heroic poems, designed for the perpetuation of our gods and demi-gods.†
Chpt 1.4
- In keeping with a custom derived from Abraham, the tent of the Bedawin yet shelters his horses and children alike.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- O my son, could it be that they with whom Jehovah thus dwelt, an awful familiar, derived nothing from him?†
Chpt 2.5
- Yet Ben-Hur derived strength for the interview from faith in his rights and the hope uppermost in his heart.†
Chpt 4.3
- To all these excellences of countenance the reader is finally besought to superadd the air derived from the pose of a small head, classic in shape, set upon a neck long, drooping, and graceful—the air, we may fancy, happily described by the word queenly.†
Chpt 4.8
- If blood derives excellence from time, son of Arrius, then is old Ilderim a man, though he be an uncircumcised Edomite.†
Chpt 4.10derives = gets
- —the sheik spoke with the feeling of a man repelling a personal defamation—"they will tell you, I say, that our horses of the best blood are derived from the Nesaean pastures of Persia.†
Chpt 4.13derived = got
- I pray thou take no offense at the address, seeing it is one of love and gratitude, and an admission that thou art most fortunate among men; seeing, also, that thy ears are as they were derived from thy mother, only proportionate to thy matured condition.†
Chpt 5.1
- Occasionally, referring to the words of Ilderim, he wondered whence the Arab derived his information about him; not from Malluch certainly; nor from Simonides, whose interests, all adverse, would hold him dumb.†
Chpt 5.6
- I understood you to speak of an inheritance derived from Arrius.†
Chpt 5.8
- The passenger is the agent going to dispose of the estate derived from Arrius the duumvir.†
Chpt 5.9
- By permission of the Lord, he had triumphed; and he derived faith from the circumstance—faith the source of all rational strength, especially strength in peril.†
Chpt 5.16
- Its reputation was that of a haunted house; derived probably from the infrequent glimpses of poor old Amrah, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in a latticed window.†
Chpt 6.3
- The pleasure she derived from the presence of Ben-Hur in the old house once more may be imagined.†
Chpt 6.5
- Like many a one before her, and many a one since, she derived inspiration, if not wisdom, from her affection, and came to a singular conclusion.†
Chpt 6.5
- The people, whether going or coming, carefully avoided the shade cast gratefully upon the white, clean-swept pavement; for, strange as it may seem, a rabbinical ordinance, alleged to have been derived from the law, permitted no green thing to be grown within the walls of Jerusalem.†
Chpt 6.6
- If the rapidity with which she spoke was a cunning invention to keep him from thinking, either she never knew or else had forgotten that there are convictions which derive nothing from thought, but drop into place without leave or notice.†
Chpt 8.6derive = get
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)