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evolved, ppl. a.|ɪˈvɒlvd|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
†a. Unfolded, opened up, made manifest or clear (obs.).
b. Developed; developed by evolution.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 172 Speaking so plaine and in evolved termes. 1647H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. iv. xi, Evolved reason cannot stand at one Stoutly to guard thy soul from passion. 1857H. Reed Lect. Eng. Poets II. 268 The best efforts of mind are those which are purely self-evolved. 1884H. Spencer in 19th Cent. XV. 12 By future more evolved intelligences, the course of things now apprehensible only in parts may be apprehensible all together. 1887Spectator 29 Oct. 1456 Inorganic matter, like water, which is not an evolved product.
Hence, † eˈvolvedly adv., explicitly, in express terms.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 77 In none of them [the Prophets] was it plainly, directly, evolvedly said and foretold, that, etc. |
