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<hw>E*vo"ca*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Calling forth; serving to evoke; developing.</def>

<blockquote><b>Evocative</b> power over all that is eloquent and expressive in the better soul of man. <i>W. Pater.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Evocator</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 518 bad typing! -->>

<hw>Ev"o*ca`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>One who calls forth.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Evoke</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 518 bad typing! -->>

<hw>E*voke"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Evoked</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Evoking</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>evocare</ets>; <ets>e</ets> out + <ets>vocare</ets> to call, fr. <ets>vox</ets>, <ets>vocis</ets>, voice: cf. F <ets>\'82voquer</ets>. See <er>Voice</er>, and cf. <er>Evocate</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To call out; to summon forth.</def>

<blockquote>To <b>evoke</b> the queen of the fairies. <i>T. Warton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A requlating discipline of exercise, that whilst <b>evoking</b> the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. <i>De Quincey.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "The cause was <i>evoked</i> to Rome."

<i>Hume.</i>

<h1>Evolatic, Evolatical</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 518 bad typing! -->>

<hw><hw>Ev`o*lat"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Ev`o*lat"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>evolare</ets> to fly away; <ets>e</ets> out + <ets>volare</ets> to fly.]</ety> <def>Apt to fly away.</def> <mark>[Obs. or R.]</mark>

<i>Blount.</i>

<h1>Evolation</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 518 bad typing! -->>

<hw>Ev`o*la"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>evolatio</ets>.]</ety> <def>A flying out or up.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Hall.</i>

<h1>Evolute</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 518 bad typing! -->>

<hw>Ev"o*lute</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>evolutus</ets> unrolled, p. p. of <ets>evolvere</ets>. See <er>Evolve</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Geom.)</fld> <def>A curve from which another curve, called the <i>involute</i> or <i>evolvent</i>, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See <er>Involute</er>. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent.</def>

<note>&hand; Any curve may be an <i>evolute</i>, the term being applied to it only in its relation to the involute.</note>

<h1>Evolutility</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 518 bad typing! -->>

<hw>Ev`o*lu*til"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Evolution</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self-nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure.</def>

<i>Syd. Soc. Lex.</i>

<h1>Evolution</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 518 bad typing! -->>

<hw>Ev`o*lu"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>evolutio</ets> an unrolling: cf. F. <ets>\'82volution</ets> evolution. See <er>Evolve</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; <as>as, the <ex>evolution</ex> of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A series of things unrolled or unfolded.</def> "The whole <i>evolution</i> of ages."

<i>Dr. H. More.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Geom.)</fld> <def>The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute.</def>

<i>Hutton.</i>