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evolvere [CL] 1 to roll away (also fig.). b to unfold (clothes). c to unroll, turn over (scroll, roll, or book; also fig.). evolutam labilibus / mundi molem rotatibus (Æthelwald) Carm. Aldh. 2. 13; citius potest in se confidens humana sapientia ‥ cornua sibi evellere quam innitendo petram hanc [sc. unum et solum Deum esse] ~vere Anselm (Incarn. A 4) I 283.  b sacra indumenta explicans et replicans, ~vendo evertens ac palpanter explorans R. Cold. Cuthb. 36.  c schedulam ‥ ~vunt Ailr. Ed. Conf. 761b (v. disquirere a); librum coram se oppansum sepius per folia seriatim ~vit R. Cold. Godr. 322; 1170 ~vat unusquisque et relegat proprie conscientie librum J. Sal. Ep. 296 (300 p. 700) ; ? 12‥ in hoc libello continentur nostrorum transcripta munimentorum ne sit necesse negociorum procuratoribus originalia illorum sepius ~vere Reg. Plympton 151. 2 to release, extricate; b (refl.). c (p. ppl.) unimpeded, free. ‘iniquitates meae supergressae caput meum’ obvolvunt me ‥. ~ve me, exonera me ‥ Anselm (Prosl. 1) I 100.  b a1093 vides ‥ quia ‥ nescio quomodo me sine peccato possim ~vere ab hac me eligentium intentione Anselm (Ep. 156) IV 19; Ib. (Incarn. A 4) I 285 (v. contemplari b).  c ut expeditius pateat ad currendum ~utioribus pedibus peragretur J. Godard Ep. 221. 3 to unravel (knot; also fig.), to uncover (something hidden). Aldh. PR 129 (v. enudare 2); Jeronimus ‥ involuta ‥ et implicita patenter ~vens et explicans elucidavit Andr. S. Vict. Comm. 273; 1170 ~vere cordis humani latebras J. Sal. Ep. 297 (301); 1177 P. Blois Ep. 66. 198b (v. cuneus 2b); speculatio prima / nec bene nec plene discernit; quando revolvo / rem magis evolvo Vinsauf PN 1964; abditas ab antiquo proprietates ~vere Gir. TH intr. p. 7. 4 to make known, unfold. quantae [fuerit] in perversos districtionis non est nostrae facultatis ~vere Abbo Edm. 4; nulla camena tuas potis est evolvere laudes Wulf. Poems 15; quot valet humanis evolvere nemo loquelis Id. Swith. I 1376; demostrer, ‥ ~vere Gl. AN Ox. f. 154; s1358 nobilitas hujus solennitatis multa erat nimis, nec est nostre facultatis ejus gloriosa facta ~vere Knighton II 99. 5 (pass., of time) to roll by. ~utis xcviij lustrorum circulis Aldh. Met. 2 p. 69; ~utis aliquorum temporum curriculis Felix Guthl. 4; solaris [annus], ‥ qui trecentis sexaginta quinque diebus ~vitur Byrht. Man. 34; a1075 paucorum dierum spatio ~uto Lanfr. Ep. (3); ~utis multis annis Hon. Spec. Eccl. 864A; s1306 paucis ~utis diebus post mortem ‥ Johannis ‥ Comyn Fordun Cont. XII 9.

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