devolve

verb7

1. •
   To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone.
2. •
   To transfer authority and responsibility for (something) to (another entity).

   • Despite being a unitary state, the Government of the United Kingdom devolved many matters to the Governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
3. •
   To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.
4. •
   To shift or to be transferred from a central government to a local one, a federal one to a federated one, etc.

   • Many legislative powers devolved to the new Scottish parliament in 1999.
5. •
   To degenerate; to break down.

   • A discussion about politics may devolve into a shouting match.
6. •
   To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially through failure or loss of an earlier holder.
7. •
   (no longer used) To roll (something) down; to unroll.

   • every headlong stream / Devolves its winding waters to the main. — 1744