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Evolve   /ɪvˈɑlv/  /ivˈɑlv/   Listen
verb
Evolve  v. t.  (past & past part. evolved; pres. part. evolving)  
1.
To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe. "The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul." "The principles which art involves, science alone evolves." "Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above."
2.
To throw out; to emit; as, to evolve odors.


Evolve  v. i.  To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution.





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"Evolve" Quotes from Famous Books



... materialist is well content to leave this whole question of ethics to adjust itself, since he knows that equality of condition, the economic basis of Socialism, will necessarily evolve a mode of living, and standards of conduct in perfect harmony with ...
— Socialism: Positive and Negative • Robert Rives La Monte
... been there in her room all this week. It would be better to wait until the coast was clear and hide it in Cornelia's closet, where it might have been put by mistake and forgotten. It was going to be hard to explain, but that was the best plan he could evolve. ...
— The Mystery of Mary • Grace Livingston Hill
... quaint idea!" exclaimed Grace. "We might evolve a play from that and call it 'The Magic Mirror.' That would be a stunt for a show. Miriam Nesbit could do a college girl. She looks the part. But here, I am miles off my subject. Suppose we go back to our girls. How are you going to propose the ...
— Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... that he had even a revolver in his pocket. It comes to me, the knowledge of these things. I cannot be blamed for it. Some day I shall write the first text-book that has ever been written of a new science. I shall evolve the first few rudimentary laws, and after that the thing will go easily. Every generation will add to them. But, Lois, because I am the first, because I have seen a little further into the world than others, you are not going to look at me as ...
— The Moving Finger • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... emphatically true of these themes," I remarked, after a long rambling talk, half reverie, half reason, "that language conceals the ideas, or, rather, the imaginations they evolve; for the word idea implies something more tangible than vagaries which the Greek poet would have called 'the dream of the shadow of smoke.' But yet more unsatisfactory than the impotence of the type is the obscurity of the thing typified. We can lay down no ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 57, July, 1862 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various


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