dévolu, -e, adj., devolved upon, vested in, fallen to, escheated. Terre —e à la couronne; an escheat.
dévolu, n.m., (ecc.) devolution, lapse of right; claim, choice. Un bénéfice tombé en —; a benefice fallen into lapse of right. Une dame jeta un — sur lui; a lady cast a spell over him. J’ai jeté mon — sur cela; I have fixed my choice upon that.
dévolution, n.f., (jur.) devolution; escheat.
dévonien, -ne, adj., (geol.) devonian.
dévorant, -e, adj., devouring; ravenous; consuming; wasting. Estomac, appétit, —; ravenous hunger, ravenous appetite. Un mal —; a wasting disease. Soif —e; burning thirst. Climat —; wasting climate.
dévorateur, n.m., devourer, destroyer.
dévorer, v.a., to devour, to eat up; to prey upon, to destroy, to suppress, to squander, to consume; to gaze at eagerly; to pore over; to swallow, to conquer, to master; to pocket. La faim le dévore; he is almost dying of hunger. Il a dévoré tout son bien; he has squandered away all his fortune. Il est dévoré d’ambition; he is consumed with ambition. — sa douleur; to stifle one’s sorrow. — un affront; to brook or pocket an affront. — les livres; to pore over, to read, books greedily. — quelqu’un des yeux; to gaze at eagerly, to stare at, to gloat over.
dévoreu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., devourer, glutton. — de livres; book-worm.
dévot, -e, adj., devout, godly, pious, holy; saintly. Avoir l’air —; to have a sanctified look.
dévot, n.m., -e, n.f., devout person; (b.s.) devotee, saint, bigot. Ne vous y fiez pas, c’est un faux —; put no trust in him, he is a bigot.