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evolutive, a.|ˈɛvəljuːtɪv|
[f. L. ēvolūt- ppl. stem of ēvolvĕre: see evolve.]
Pertaining or tending to evolution or development; promoting evolution.
1874Lewes Problems Life & Mind I. 112 The special evolutive conditions, namely, etc. 1883Nature 15 Feb. 367 The life of the sieve tubes may be divided into 2 periods; the evolutive and the passive. 1886F. W. H. Myers in Phantasms of the Living I. Introd. 43 We have induced [by hypnotism] a change of personality which is not per se either evolutive or dissolutive. |