Obs. Also 7 in bad form evolition. [ad. late L. ēvolātiōn-em, n. of action f. ēvolāre: see EVOLATE.] The action of flying out or away.
1644. Bp. Hall, Free Prisoner, § 7 (T.). These walls of flesh forbid that evolation [of the soul]. Ibid. (1645), Remedy Discontents. How did he triumph over your cruelty? how did he by his happy evolation make all those stones precious?
1664. Evelyn, Sylva (1776), 31. Forest trees and woods … hinder the necessary evolition of this superfluous moisture.
1669. J. Rose, Eng. Vineyard (1675), 22. Salts and spirits which a more moderate fire would preserve from evolition and flying away.
