evolvedadj.
/ɪˈvɒlvd/, U.S. /əˈvɔlvd/, /iˈvɔlvd/, /əˈvɑlvd/, /iˈvɑlvd/ΘΚΠ
society > communication > manifestation > [adjective] > manifested
objecta1398
displayedc1425
manifested?1531
confessed1561
understood1576
objected1606
ostended1608
ostential1609
exposed1630
evolveda1641
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > [adjective]
explicit1549
expressible1605
effable1637
evolveda1641
describable1655
disimplicated1753
enunciable1825
talkable1830
the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > furtherance > [adjective] > furthered or developed
fostered1582
evolveda1641
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 172 Speaking so plaine and in evolved termes.
a1687 H. More Disc. Script. (1692) vi. 157 The evolved life of man consists in this, in knowledge or apprehension of things.
1770 C. Milne Bot. Dict. at Gemma The buds that are to be unfolded the following year, break forth from the evolved buds of the present year.
2. Chiefly Chemistry. Originally: liberated or disengaged from chemical combination. In later use: released or given off during a chemical or biochemical reaction. Cf. evolution n. 11.
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1772 J. MacLurg Exper. Human Bile 38 The colouring matter of the Bile discovers also a much stronger attraction to the mineral acids, and gives indubitable marks of a more evolved phlogiston.
1785 R. Irving Exper. Red & Quill Peruvian Bark 67 I..conclude, that the more sudden production of colour in the decoction was owing to a more evolved state of this gas than in the infusion, and that the green colour..proceeded from a still more evolved state of this gas.
1822 A. Ure in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 112 463 The evolved gas is saturated with moisture.
1863 W. T. Brande & A. S. Taylor Chem. vi. 90 All cases of oxidation are attended with the evolution of heat, but when the process is slow, the evolved heat is unobserved and dissipated without accumulation.
1881 S. W. Johnson in tr. C. R. Fresenius Man. Qualitative Chem . Anal. 47 Conduct the evolved gas, by means of a bent tube, into a flask containing six parts of water.
1936 S. Glasstone Recent Adv. Gen. Chem. iv. 146 The quantity dn1/dn2 is a measure of the H/D [= hydrogen/deuterium] ratio in the evolved gas.
1970 Ecology 51 155/1 Studies of the rate and mechanism of nutrient cycling in ecosystems often involve measurements of microbially evolved carbon dioxide.
1994 Estuaries 17 309/2 The evolved hydrogen sulfide (H2S) was purged from the solution.
3.
a. Developed, advanced in development; produced by a process of evolution. Frequently with modifying adverb.
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the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > furtherance > [adjective] > furthered or developed > through or by evolution
evolved1864
evolutionized1883
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. 35 Their self-evolved inexplicable explanations of everything.]
1864 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 154 525 The cerebellum in the Bushwoman is very well developed, and..is far more completely evolved than the cerebrum.
1881 Science 19 Nov. 554/2 But after it [sc. the habit of flight] was once gained there would be no special hindrance to increase in size in the newly evolved species.
1900 Nature 20 Sept. 507/1 Cheirolepis is a fully evolved palæoniscid, as shown by its oblique suspensorium.
1922 A. Jekyll Kitchen Ess. 174 Caramel of Oranges and Cream is a nice and recently evolved sweet.
1929 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 59 429 The Middle Stone Age parallels the Mousterian of Europe, but often in evolved forms.
1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xxvii. 534 The group less highly evolved is the gymnosperms with the seed exposed.
1959 J. Clegg Freshwater Life (ed. 2) ii. 38 In a rich ‘evolved’ type of lake a wealth of minute plants is enabled to thrive.
2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees iii. 63 The DNA molecule is itself extremely intricate and highly evolved.
b. Of a person: spiritually or intellectually advanced. Also: modern, progressive, or emotionally mature.
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1893 A. W. Besant Death—& After? 26 The existence of such regions..is known to the Adepts and to very many less highly evolved men and women.
1953 Yuma (Arizona) Daily Sun 17 Nov. 10/4 There's no excitement like meeting some evolved person..[with an] inner spark of light.
1971 Sunday Sun (Lowell, Mass.) 21 Feb. d1/1 Any evolved woman is, as far as clothes are concerned, interested only in herself.
2007 Times (Nexis) 25 Sept. 10 The evolved male will refer to his female colleagues as ‘women’, not ‘ladies’ and never ‘girls’.
4. Mathematics. Produced or derived by a process of mathematical evolution (evolution n. 4).
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1913 Math. Gaz. 7 183 When evolving, if we don't come to a conclusion, the number cannot be evolved indefinitely. In such a case, divide the remainder by the evolved root.
1968 SIAM Jrnl. Appl. Math. 16 302 The evolved set of partial differential equations may be reduced to a set of ordinary differential equations.
1990 SIAM Jrnl. Numerical Anal. 27 562 Several criteria could be used to recognise and recover a jump from the projection Un of the evolved solution E*ũn.
Derivatives
eˈvolvedly adv. rare in an evolved manner; explicitly, clearly.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > [adverb]
formally1526
in the same sense1534
to that sense1594
explicitly1605
evolvedlya1641
on (also upon, from) the face of1719
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [adverb] > explicitly
in termsc1400
apresslya1450
expressly1509
preciselya1513
by termsa1525
formally1526
expressedlya1555
explicately1606
pointingly1607
evolvedlya1641
exactly1646
syllabically1654
explicitlya1657
pointedly1775
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 77 In none of them [sc. the Prophets] was it plainly, directly, evolvedly said and foretold, that, etc.
1820 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Comm. Plato I. ii. 287 For it is requisite that what the thing is contractedly, that language should be evolvedly; in order that it may unfold the thing into light, and may be subordinate to the nature of it.
1996 Re: Ideas for Electronic Humane Mouse Trap in sci.electronics.misc (Usenet newsgroup) 28 Nov. Mice which find their way into human habitations in an ever more evolvedly overt fashion.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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