evolve
verb (used with object)
to develop gradually.
self-evolved
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a word derived from
evolve.
Example Sentences
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Once it was said that they were moved by spirits, then by vortexes, now by self-evolved forces.
From What is Darwinism? by Charles Hodge
On they went, the self-evolved breeze a gale now, the throb of the big motor a continuous moan, the cloud of dust behind them a dull brown bank against the sky.
From The Dominant Dollar by Lester Ralph
The ideas, it is true, were not self-evolved; they presupposed beliefs which had been bequeathed by the past; but their logical development and the forms which they assumed were the work of the Egyptian people.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Also his self-evolved translation of the duties of friendship is the last word on that subject.
From The Native Son by Inez Haynes Gillmore
Was the art of making an alloy of tin and copper self-evolved, or was it an art which foreign commerce introduced?
From The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
