Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Derive

Derive , transitive verb

[French dériver, Latin derivare; de- + rivus stream, brook. See Rival.]

1.
To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into, on, upon. [Obsolete]
For fear it [water] choke up the pits... they [the workman] derive it by other drains. — Holland
Her due loves derived to that vile witch's share. — Spenser
Derived to us by tradition from Adam to Noah. — Jer. Taylor
2.
To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from.
3.
To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon.
From these two causes... an ancient set of physicians derived all diseases. — Arbuthnot
4.
(Chemistry) To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon.

Derive , intransitive verb

To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced. — Shakespeare
Power from heaven Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed. — Prior