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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EVOLV'ING, ppr. Unfolding; expanding; emitting.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Evolve E*volve", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evolved; p. pr. & vb. n. Evolving.] [L. evolvere, evolutum; e out + volvere to roll. See Voluble.] 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. --Sir. M. Hale. The principles which art involves, science alone evolves. --Whewell. Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above. --J. C. Shairp. 2. To throw out; to emit; as, to evolve odors.

Moby Thesaurus

accomplishment, advance, advancement, advancing, amplification, blossoming, bradytelic, developing, development, developmental change, elaboration, enlargement, evolution, evolutional, evolutionary change, evolutionist, evolutionistic, evolvement, expansion, explication, flowering, furtherance, genetic, gradual change, growth, horotelic, maturation, maturational, maturative, maturing, natural development, natural growth, nonviolent change, ontogenetic, phylogenetic, physiogenetic, progress, progressing, progression, ripening, rise, tachytelic, unfolding