Benevolence :: Benevolence (n.) The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness..

Benevolence :: Benevolence (n.) An act of kindness; good done; charity given.

Benevolence :: Benevolence (n.) A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity..

Benevolent :: Benevolent (a.) Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable..

Benevolous :: Benevolous (a.) Kind; benevolent.

Devolute :: Devolute (v. t.) To devolve.

Devolution :: Devolution (n.) The act of rolling down.

Devolution :: Devolution (n.) Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor.

Devolve :: Devolve (v. t.) To roll onward or downward; to pass on.

Devolve :: Devolve (v. t.) To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into..

Devolve :: Devolve (v. i.) To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank..

Devolved :: Devolved (imp. & p. p.) of Devolv.

Devolvement :: Devolvement (n.) The act or process of devolving;; devolution.

Devolving :: Devolving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devolv.

Evolatic :: Evolatic (a.) Alt. of Evolatica.

Evolatical :: Evolatical (a.) Apt to fly away.

Evolation :: Evolation (n.) A flying out or up.

Evolute :: Evolute (n.) A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent..

Evolutility :: Evolutility (n.) The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self-nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure..

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) 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..

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) A series of things unrolled or unfolded.

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute.

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution.

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver..

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development.

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis..

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function. The pocess is by some limited to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity. The agencies and la

Evolutional :: Evolutional (a.) Relating to evolution.

Evolutionary :: Evolutionary (a.) Relating to evolution; as, evolutionary discussions..

Evolutionism :: Evolutionism (n.) The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7..

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