<B>evocation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of evoking or calling forth. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Law.) the transferring of a case from a lower to a higher court. </DL>
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<B>evocative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> tending to evoke. <BR> <I>Ex. The whole is a skillful and robustly unsentimental piece of evocative writing (New Yorker).</I> adv. <B>evocatively.</B> noun <B>evocativeness.</B> </DL>
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<B>evocator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who evokes. </DL>
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<B>evocatory, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having the function of evoking. </DL>
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<B>evoke, </B>transitive verb, <B>evoked,</B> <B>evoking.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to call forth; bring out. <BR> <I>Ex. A good joke evokes a laugh.</I> (SYN) elicit. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Law.) to transfer (a case) from a lower to a higher court. </DL>
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<B>evoked potential,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the electrical response arising from the cortex of the brain upon stimulation of a sense organ. <BR> <I>Ex. Evoked potentials can be used to detect deafness in infants, which is otherwise quite difficult to diagnose (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
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<B>evoker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one that evokes. </DL>
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<B>evolue, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) an educated or advanced African native. <BR> <I>Ex. Since World War II, a new social group had appeared in the Congo--the evolues (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>evolute, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geometry.) a curve that is the locus of the center of curvature of another curve (the involute), or the envelope of the normals to the latter; the curve from which an involute is formed by the unwrapping of a flexible and inextensible string. </DL>
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<B>evolution, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any process of formation or growth; gradual development. <BR> <I>Ex. the evolution of the flower from the bud, the evolution of the modern steamship from the first crude boat.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>something evolved; product of development; not a sudden discovery or creation. <DD><B> 3. </B>the theory that all living things developed from a few simple forms of life through a series of physical changes. According to evolution, the first mammal developed from a type of reptile, and ultimately all forms are traced back to a simple, perhaps single-celled, organism. <DD><B> 4a. </B>a movement of ships or soldiers, planned beforehand; deployment. <DD><B> b. </B>any movement into a new formation, especially in marching. <DD><B> 5. </B>a movement that is a part of a definite plan, design, or series. <BR> <I>Ex. A clumsy person could never achieve the graceful evolutions of that ballet dancer.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>a releasing; giving off; setting free, especially by chemical or physical change. <BR> <I>Ex. the evolution of heat from burning coal.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>(Mathematics.) the extraction of roots from powers. Finding the square root of a number is an example of evolution. <DD><B> 8. </B>one of the regulated and recurring movements of a portion of a machine. <DD><B> 9. </B>(Philosophy.) the theory that a process or progressive change, with the development of more complex entities, characterizes all force and matter in the universe. <BR> <I>Ex. Evolution is advance from the simple to the complex (Edward Clodd).</I> </DL>
<B>evolutionarily, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in an evolutionary manner; in accordance with the theory of evolution. <BR> <I>Ex. Each [human population] becomes a separate race evolutionarily affected by technological and other cultural factors (John J. Honigmann). Evolutionarily speaking, brains--of a sort, at least--are a fairly early development (Listener).</I> </DL>
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<B>evolutionary, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with evolution; evolutional. <DD><B> 2. </B>in accordance with the theory of evolution. <DD><B> 3. </B>performing evolutions; having to do with evolutions. </DL>
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<B>evolutionism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the biological doctrine of evolution. <BR> <I>Ex. Herbert Spencer's evolutionism, Alfred Tennyson's poems, the fashion of geologizing--all were the expression of a general movement (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
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<B>evolutionist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person who believes in and supports the theory of evolution. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=evolutionistic.</B> </DL>
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<B>evolutionistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>tending to support the theory of evolution. <DD><B> 2. </B>that produces evolution. adv. <B>evolutionistically.</B> </DL>
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<B>evolutive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or tending to evolution or development; promoting evolution. <BR> <I>Ex. To establish a comparative and evolutive physiology of the heart, we must try to create a technique with any kind of vertebrate animal which will allow the heart to survive for long periods wide open (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
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<B>evolvable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be evolved. </DL>
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<B>evolve, </B>verb, <B>evolved,</B> <B>evolving.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to develop gradually; work out; unfold. <BR> <I>Ex. The boys evolved a plan for earning money during their summer vacation.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Biology.) to develop by a process of growth and change to a more highly organized condition. <DD><B> 3. </B>to release; give off; set free, as gases. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to be developed by evolution. <BR> <I>Ex. Buds evolve into flowers. The modern automobile evolved from the horse and buggy.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to become an evolue. <BR> <I>Ex. To "evolve," an African must reach a certain educational and economic level (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>evolvement, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of evolving. <DD><B> 2. </B>the condition of being evolved. </DL>
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<B>evolvent, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> that evolves. <DD><I>noun </I> the involute of a curve. </DL>
<A NAME="evolver">
<B>evolver, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that evolves. </DL>
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<B>evonymus, </B>noun. =euonymus.</DL>
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<B>evovae, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> in Gregorian music: <DD><B> 1. </B>the trope at the end of the melody for the lesser doxology. <DD><B> 2. </B>any trope. </DL>
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<B>EVR</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> electronic video recording (a system of cassette television in which miniaturized film coiled in cartridges is inserted in a converter unit connected to the antenna terminals of a television set). </DL>
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<B>evulse, </B>transitive verb, <B>evulsed,</B> <B>evulsing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to pluck or pull out; tear away. </DL>
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<B>evulsion, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of plucking or pulling out; forcible extraction. </DL>
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<B>evzone, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a special corps of infantrymen in the Greek army, known for its great valor and picturesque uniform. <BR> <I>Ex. A kilted evzone hobnobbed with a philosopher in a white toga (Harper's).</I> </DL>
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<B>EW</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> emergency ward (in a hospital). <BR> <I>Ex. As they saw it, the first duty of the EW residents was to lower that fever by every possible means, even if this hampered further diagnostic efforts (Michael Crichton).</I> </DL>
<B>ewe, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a female sheep. </DL>
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<B>Ewe, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an African tribe inhabiting both sides of the border of Ghana and Togo. <DD><B> 2. </B>a member of this tribe. <DD><B> 3. </B>the Kwa language of this tribe. </DL>
<B>Ewig-Weibliche, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (German.) the eternal feminine (as used in Goethe's <I>Faust</I>). </DL>
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<B>ex</B> (1), preposition.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>out of. "Ex elevator" means free of charges until the time of removal from the grain elevator. <DD><B> 2. </B>without; not including. Ex dividend stocks are stocks on which the purchaser will not receive the next dividend to be paid. <DD><B> 3. </B>(U.S.) in the class of, but not as a graduate. <BR> <I>Ex. ex '54.</I> </DL>
