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Convolute   /kˈɑnvəlˌut/   Listen
Convolute

adjective
1.
Rolled longitudinally upon itself.  Synonym: convoluted.
verb
1.
Curl, wind, or twist together.  Synonym: convolve.
2.
Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.  Synonyms: pervert, sophisticate, twist, twist around.






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"Convolute" Quotes from Famous Books



... represent,—letters, numbers, things, or abstractions? This I was the more readily able to determine because I have often, in thinking over the shape of the Roman letter S, wondered whether it did not owe its convolute form to an attempt on the part of its inventor to make a picture of the serpent; S being the sibilant or hissing letter, and the serpent the hissing animal. This view, I fancy (though I am not sure), has escaped the philologists, but ...
— Prince Zaleski • M.P. Shiel

... myself, were these drawings meant to represent,—letters, numbers, things, or abstractions? This I was the more readily able to determine because I have often, in thinking over the shape of the Roman letter S, wondered whether it did not owe its convolute form to an attempt on the part of its inventor to make a picture of the serpent; S being the sibilant or hissing letter, and the serpent the hissing animal. This view, I fancy (though I am not sure), has escaped the philologists, but of course you know that all letters were ...
— Prince Zaleski • M.P. Shiel



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