To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense. If the earth revolve thus, each house pear the equator must move a thousand miles an hour. I. Watts.
To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun.
To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve.
To return; to pass. [R.] Ayliffe.
To cause to turn, as on an axis. Then in the east her turn she shines, Revolved on heaven's great axile. Milton.
Hence, to turn over and over in the mind; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of. This having heard, straight I again revolved The law and prophets. Milton.
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