[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
1. That evolves; in quots. intr. a. Opening; b. issuing forth, emitted.
c. 1720. Prior, Solomon, III. Poems 1723, I. 187. Ambrosial Odor … Does round the Air evolving Scents diffuse.
1773. J. Ross, Fratricide (MS.), V. 800. Thou shalt quit Thy earthy prison, and evolving Heaven Shall snatch thee.
2. That is in process of evolution.
1862. H. Spencer, First Princ., II. xix. § 149 (1875), 401. The genesis of the re-arrangement undergone by every evolving aggregate, is in itself one.
1883. H. Drummond, Nat. Law in Spir. W. (ed. 8), 244. The evolving batrachian.
1888. Pall Mall Gaz., 21 Sept., 3/1. This evolving town council was a purely native growth.
