[f. EVOLVE v. + -ER1.] One who, or that which, evolves.

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1803.  W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., I. 398. They may be … useful as seminaries of instruction, useful as evolvers of merit.

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1825.  Coleridge, in Rem. (1836), II. 345. The fates, the evolvers of the endless thread.

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1883.  Monier-Williams, Relig. Th. in India, iii. 44. The male god Brahma … the apparent Evolver of all the inferior forms.

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