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A spiral turn or wreath.

A rolling toward something. [R.]

ndabout procedure; a circumlocution. He had neither time nor temper for sentimental circumvolutions. Beaconsfield.

ything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion. O'er the calm sea, in convolution swift, The feathered eddy floats. Thomson.

marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution; as, ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies. Opposite of revolutionary. [WordNet 1.5]

The act of rolling down. [R.] The devolution of earth down upon the valleys. Woodward.

The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.

Relating to evolution. "Evolutional changes." H. Spenser.

Relating to evolution; as, evolutionary discussions.

The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7.

One skilled in evolutions.

The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake. Hawthorne.

volved; complication; entanglement. All things are mixed, and causes blended, by mutual involutions. Glanvill.

n axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.

Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.

One who is engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionist. Smollett.

The state of being in revolution; revolutionary doctrines or principles.

One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution. Burke.

To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government. Ames. The gospel . . . has revolutionized his soul. J. M. Mason.

Evolution of one's self; development by inherent quality or power.