ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] † a. Unfolded, opened up, made manifest or clear (obs.). b. Developed; developed by evolution.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 172. Speaking so plaine and in evolved termes.
1647. H. More, Song of Soul, II. iii. IV. xi. Evolved reason cannot stand at one Stoutly to guard thy soul from passion.
1857. H. Reed, Lect. Eng. Poets, II. 268. The best efforts of mind are those which are purely self-evolved.
1884. H. 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.
1887. Spectator, 29 Oct., 1456. Inorganic matter, like water, which is not an evolved product.
Hence † Evolvedly adv., explicitly, in express terms.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 77. In none of them [the Prophets], was it plainly, directly, evolvedly said and foretold, that [etc.].
