revolvev.

Brit.

/rᵻˈvɒlv/, U.S.

/rəˈvɔlv/,

/riˈvɔlv/,

/rəˈvɑlv/,

/riˈvɑlv/

Forms: late Middle English–1600s reuolue, late Middle English– revolve, 1500s reuolde (past tense), 1500s reuolve, 1500s–1600s revolue; also Scottish pre-1700 reuolfe, pre-1700 reuolwe, pre-1700 revolf, pre-1700 rewolf, pre-1700 rewoll.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French revolver; Latin revolvere.

Etymology: < Middle French revolver to turn (something), to turn (something) over in the mind (c1400 or earlier) and its etymon classical Latin revolvere to roll back or aside, to roll back to the start, to roll back (a scroll) in order to read it, to go back over in thought or speech, to cause to travel in a circular course, to cause to return (to a point in a cycle), to bring round again, (in passive) to fall back again, to relapse, to revert or be brought back < re- re- prefix + volvere volve v. Compare Spanish revolver (13th cent.), Portuguese revolver (13th cent.), Italian rivolgere (a1292). Compare earlier revolution n., and also revolving n.

I. Senses in which physical movement is primary.

†1. transitive. To cause to roll; to move by rolling. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move or cause to move progressively in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > cause to roll along

wallowa1380

rolla1398

revolve?a1425

trollc1450

bowl1580

trundle1598

run1889

?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 90^v (MED) Þe roller schal ben firste duced towarde þe bodie..reuoluynge þe rollere apon þe parties þat lien nye þe wounde.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 3919 (MED) From þe hil þe water is revolvid Of snowys white, þat Phebus hath dissoluyd.

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Piv^v Let them be applyed vpon the sayde places in reuoluynge them contynually from one place to another that they cleue nat to the flesshe.

†2. transitive. To bind (a limb), tie or wrap up; to intertwine. Also figurative. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)]

bewindOE

writheOE

windc1175

bewrap?c1225

lapa1300

umbelaya1300

umbeweave1338

wlappec1380

enwrapa1382

wrapa1382

inlap1382

envelop1386

forwrapc1386

hapc1390

umbeclapa1400

umbethonrea1400

umblaya1400

wapc1420

biwlappea1425

revolve?a1425

to roll up?a1425

roll?c1425

to roll ina1475

wimple1513

to wind up?1533

invest1548

circumvolve1607

awrap1609

weave1620

sheet1621

obvolve1623

embowdle1625

amict1657

wry1674

woold1775

overwrap1815

wrapper1885

wrapper1905

weve-

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 75^v Ligature..is made wiþ a long bende..bigynnyng at þe partie opposite of þe wonde..& reuoluyng [?c1425 Paris wrappynge] þe 2 endez aboue þe wonde.

1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. F.vii^v Small..vaynes, reuoluing them self in & out a thousand fold & manifold wise intricat together.

1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 21/2 A certayn kind of ligament, as is that wherwith we revolve a fracture of a Legge, that the one half therof cover the other.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 250 These three reuolu'd in one, Points forth the Pope.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 334 The commendation of which Cities rest reuolu'd in these following verses.

a. transitive. To turn, bring, or roll back (into a place or state) (also †unto, †upon a person); to restore. Now rare.In quot. 1431 perhaps an error for renoveld (see renovel v.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > a thing to or into previous condition

reversec1350

reforma1393

recover1393

converta1425

reduce?a1425

revolve1431

returnc1436

recure?1440

remayne1481

relieve1483

redressc1500

restaur1508

reprieve?1567

recollect1606

redeem1613

regain1624

to bring back1662

re-reducea1676

1431 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1431 §16. m. 8 Þe saide prison..was throwen doune; and of almesse..revolved and made agayn in a better maner.

c1450 tr. Secreta Secret. (Royal) 21 What disese the planetis shewe in her worchyng good men mowe so preye vnto god..that god wille turne, revolue, and reuoke alle that men dowte.

1538 Prymer in Eng. after Vse of Sarum sig. P iii^v I shall reuolue all my yeres vnto the with great bytternes of herte.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. f. 347^v Time euer old, and yonge is still reuolued Within it selfe, and neuer tasteth ende.

1622 E. Misselden Free Trade 127 The Current once diuerted will hardly bee reuolued into its genuine Source and Course againe.

1659 J. Milton Considerations touching Hirelings To Parl. sig. A5^v The care and tuition of whose peace and safety..is now again by a new dawning of Gods miraculous providence among us, revolvd upon your shoulders.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 53 And the four Elements..shall maintain a dreadful fight, so long and so fiercely..that at last all will be revolved into a dark confusion.

1731 I. Thompson Coll. Poems 54 Nay, sooner Xanthus will revolve his Course!

1888 Academy 28 Jan. 63/2 Is it always right to ask which came first and which came last, whether folly was evolved into wisdom or wisdom revolved into folly?

1905 Cleveland Med. & Surg. Rep. Mar. 98 The organization..is revolved into that matter from which the forces of life had rescued it.

b. intransitive. To return or turn back to a person or place; to revert or regress to (also into) a state or condition; (occasionally) to move on or around to (a person, etc.). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [verb (intransitive)]

to wend againeOE

i-cherrec1000

again-chareOE

again-comeOE

again-fareOE

again-goOE

eft-sithec1175

to turn againc1175

returna1325

attournec1386

turnc1390

recovera1393

repair?c1400

recourse?a1425

to go backc1425

resortc1425

revertc1475

renew1488

retour?1505

to make return1534

to turn back1538

retend1543

to come short home1548

regress1552

rejourna1556

revolt1567

revolve1587

repeal1596

recur1612

rewend1616

revene1656

to get back1664

to take back1674

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > return towards point of departure

repaira1325

returna1325

rebounda1382

redounda1382

recovera1393

to go backc1425

revertc1475

renew1488

reverse1542

retire1567

revolve1587

reciprocate1623

retrovert1639

to get back1664

recur1719

hoicks1762

boomerang1900

1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 141/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II What should be the cause that they should thus rage, and so wickedlie and suddenlie reuolue, as dogs to their vomits, so they to their treasons.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. v. vii. 179 They would in time, of themselues reuolue to that first neglectiue condition.

1682 J. Howe Right Use Argument 54 We are revolving, and rolling back, out of our single, and separate state, into our original, most natural state, of subordination to God.

a1700 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 111 As soon might the Autumnal Sun To Libra, when its Course was run, Revolve, till it to Aries reel'd.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 81 The Jurisdiction does ipso Jure revolve to the Judge a Quo.

1755 H. Walpole Let. 21 Dec. in Corr. (1960) XX. 518 You will smile at seeing Doddington again revolved to the Court.

1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 3 Public accounts formerly printed and reprinted revolve once more, and find their old station in this sober meridian.

1782 W. Anderson Hist. France IV. i. ii. 28 The kingdom would have soon revolved into a state little different from feudal independence.

a1876 G. Dawson Biogr. Lect. (1886) xxi. 252 Sunlike, he has remained still, and the world has revolved to him.

1884 Brit. & Foreign Evangelical Rev. Mar. 127 He has revolved to the spot of his nativity.

1906 W. H. R. Rivers Todas xxii. 538 I had the option of claiming the first three children, Khakhood the second three, and Tūmbŭt the third. Three; when the option again revolved to me.

c. intransitive. To move around, as in order or sequence; (in extended use) to evolve (into).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > come in due order or course [verb (intransitive)] > go from one to another of a series

revolve1681

1681 R. Baxter Apol. Nonconformists Ministry 82 I came away from the place I was at before the Sequestration revolved to the Vicar.

1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 131 A world-wearied man..could not do better than revolve amongst these modest inns.

1919 C. F. Frazier in H. T. Schnittkind Best College Short Stories 1917–18 53 Discussions had such a way, at the most interesting point, of revolving into monologues.

1967 Jrnl. Soc. Hist. 1 164 Upon the death of a householder, all his property was divided equally between his sons and brothers, and the title of ‘head’ revolved to the eldest brother.

1987 I. Sinclair White Chappell Scarlet Tracings iv. 43 In the street outside D/S Clark and Policewoman Dudley..revolve between the pub, which is the busiest brothel between Cable Street and Whitechapel..and the half-squat.

a. intransitive. Of (a period of) time: to continue in its passage or revolution; to go around, as if on an axis, so as to return to the equivalent point (in the next year, etc.); to come round again.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > cycle of time > [verb (intransitive)] > turn, cycle, or revolve (of time)

revolve1449

cycle1842

wheela1849

J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) 177 (MED) In June, the qwyche the nest month ys aftyr May, The yere reuoluyd; fro the tyme the olde tempyl fyl The nwe was made and complet be xxti day.

1578 R. Robinson tr. Dyall of Dayly Contemplacion Pref. And thus our tyme reuoluing by continuall alteration..succeedeth dollorus Death: the which no man by naturall course can eschue.

1635 G. Wither Coll. Emblemes i. 4 Time may so revolve againe, at last, That New-Occasions may be offred thee.

1654 M. Stevenson Occasions Off-spring 111 Natures appointed time of change revolves, And it into his elements desolves.

1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 387 The Sun will keep his Pace, and Time revolve, Rough Winters pass, and Springs come smiling on.

1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 34 The year revolves, and I again explore The simple Annals of my Parish-poor.

1872 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 24 Aug. 220/2 As time revolves, new exigencies are developed.

1937 F. M. Cornford Plato's Cosmology 104 Proclus remarks on this that Time revolves as the first among things that are moved.

1987 L. Murray Coll. Poems (1991) 291 As grass tips turn maroon in a further winter I present how time revolved through the spiral of a year.

†b. transitive. To bring round in the course of time. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [verb (transitive)] > bring round or bring nearer

acceleratec1522

revolvea1591

a1591 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 487 [I] yet desire to be dissolv'd (When my due date shall be revolv'd) As more happy far for me.

†c. transitive. To bring round again to some position. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > intend [verb (transitive)] > direct actions, speech, etc., towards > bring round again to some position

revolve1651

1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Dying ii. §1 51 When they are passively revolved to the time of their dissolution they have no mercies in store.

1653 T. Manton Pract. Comm. James v. 17 This plainly revolveth you to the tenor of the old covenant, and maketh works the ground of your acceptance with God.

1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. i. iii. 32 As for predisposition, the question will be revolved to the same point.

5. transitive. To turn (the eyes or one's gaze) back or round; to move (the eye or eyes) sideways; to look by moving (the eyes) in this way. Also in figurative context. Cf. roll v.² 21b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > turn (eyes) round

revolve1523

1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 664 Then furthermore aboute me my syght I reuolde.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxxxiii If such men wolden their eyen of their conscience reuoluen, shulden sene the same sentence they legen on other, springe out of their sydes.

1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. X4 Revolve he did his loving eye;..And looking back, that look did sever Him and Euridice for ever.

1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. iii. 147 Let him into himself revolve his Eye.

1724 L. Welsted Epist. 96 All lofty does he rise, And round the Fane revolves his flaming Eyes.

1794 Universal Mag. June 442/1 In kindred glooms, revolve thy baleful haggard eye.

1860 E. G. Parker Reminisc. Rufus Choate iv. 196 Choate drew himself up to his full height, threw back his head, and..revolved his blazing eyes back a little over the scene.

1899 Harper's Mag. Mar. 660/2 Uncle Bentley was seen to revolve one eyeball the merest trifle as he watched the rabbit.

1902 M. K. Bellow Tales from Tennyson 79 He revolved his eyes about the bare hall.

1961 D. Attenborough Zoo Quest to Madagascar viii. 94 We left him there, glowering ferociously and revolving his eyes.

1991 J. Pilkington Englishman in Patagonia 11 I let my gaze revolve slowly across the 180-degree horizon.

a. transitive. To cause (something) to move in a circle or to travel in an orbit around a central point; to rotate (a thing) about an axis.Quot. 1778, which erroneously read revolving in N.E.D. (1908), was there made the basis of a sense 11c ‘to wind spirally’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)]

turnOE

trillc1386

gyrec1420

rote?1533

tirl1543

to turn round1555

revolve1559

circumvert1578

circumgyre1635

circumrote1635

circumgyrate1647

circumvolve1647

veera1649

twist1769

rotate1777

sphere1820

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > cause to move in circle or curve [verb (transitive)] > move in circle round something

umgoa1300

compassc1384

gyrec1420

environ?a1425

circuitc1550

revolve1559

circle1582

to put (also make, cast) a girdle (round) about1600

encirclea1616

encompass1640

whirla1657

circulate1685

gird1688

circumgyrate1868

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 15 There can be but one axe tree, on whiche the sphere, or globe, is reuoluid.

1614 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Little Bartas in tr. J. Bertaut Parl. Vertues Royal 239 Though, in Times Terms the Heav'ns reuolued be; A Thousand Yeers are but One Day with Thee.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 381 Then in the East her turn she shines, Revolvd on Heavn's great Axle.

1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 25 There could not possibly arise in the Chaos any Vortices..either to form the Globes of the Planets, or to revolve them when formed.

1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. II. iv. §3. 473 The Body which is urg'd by a Centripetal Force..is Revolv'd along with L.

1755 Man No. 50. 3 When he stretches out his arm it serves as a bar of defence, which, when he revolves it, acts as a sling.

1778 J. Cook Jrnl. 18 June (1967) III. i. 381 From above and behind each eye arises an elegant yellowish white crest revolv'd backwards as a rams horn.

1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 15 Some mechanical adjunct for revolving the chamber.

1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 312/2 It [sc. the gun] is placed opposite the loading gear by revolving the turn-table.

1918 F. D. Jones Mechanisms & Mech. Movements ii. 58 In the case of a ‘fly-ball’ governor, weights or balls attached to pivoted levers are revolved by the engine.

1946 National Geographic Mag. July 76 Spotting smoke, the guard revolves the ring and adjusts the sights until the base of the smoke appears in the cross hairs of the front sight.

1972 M. Kline Math. Thought vii. 168 Ellipsoids,..formed by revolving an ellipse about its major axis.

1991 D. Wells Penguin Dict. Curious & Interesting Geom. 199 The pseudosphere is constructed by revolving a tractrix about its axis.

b. intransitive. Esp. of a celestial object: to perform a circular (or elliptical) motion; to orbit about (also round, around) a central point.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > move in a circle or curve [verb (intransitive)] > move in a circle

to go aboutOE

whirlc1290

circule1430

circlec1440

to cast, fet, fetch, go, take a compass?a1500

circuit1611

circumgyre1634

revolve1660

circulate1672

orba1821

circumvolve1841

to loop the loop1902

orbit1948

1660 T. Salusbury tr. D. Bartoli Learned Man defended & Reform'd i. 27 Seeing himself crowned with a world of starres, which did revolve about him.

1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth i. 22 All Bodies..which revolve in Curves..are attracted..continually towards that Point or Center.

1713 G. Berkeley in Guardian 5 Aug. 1/1 Those Bodies that revolve round the Sun.

?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 449/2 It will then be..forced to revolve about S in the circle BYTU.

1801 C. Smith Lett. Solitary Wanderer II. 84 Whose beams enlighten and cherish the unknown worlds which revolve around them.

1854 Lardner's Museum Sci. & Art i. ii. 23 The three planets Mars, Venus and Mercury, which, with the Earth, revolve nearest to the Sun.

1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. §142 The only satellite which takes a longer time to revolve round its primary than our Moon.

1930 J. H. Jeans Universe around Us (ed. 2) iv. 226 A system of tiny satellites revolving around the earth.

1975 Sci. Amer. June 67/1 Each star..may be rotating on an axis, or revolving around a companion.

1997 New Scientist 12 July 28/2 Most Local Group members revolve around either Andromeda or the Milky Way, just as the Moon orbits the Earth.

c. intransitive. To rotate on an axis or around a centre (also in extended use, of a static structure). Also (of an engine or machine): to run so that its rotating parts are in motion.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)]

wharvec888

turnOE

runOE

to turn aboutOE

to turn roundc1450

to go roundc1460

revolute1553

gyre1598

veer1605

to come about1607

circumvolve1626

circumgyre1634

to turn around1642

roll1646

revolve1660

circulate1672

twist1680

circumgyrate1683

rotate1757

gyrate1830

1660 T. Salusbury tr. D. Bartoli Learned Man defended & Reform'd ii. 156 As are the double motion of the Sun, that in the fashion of a Top, firmly revolves in it self; and on the Poles of his Axis.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Earth For a Body, revolving on its Axis, the Parts..are continually endeavouring to recede from the Centre.

1795 J. Banks Treat. Mills iv. 152 The water is applied at the center, the wheel revolves 13.03 times in one minute.

1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. ix. 173 The pannelling..was made to revolve upon hinges.

1876 J. S. Whiteaves Mesozoic Fossils I. 214 Longitudinal sections show that a triangular and acutely pointed spiral ridge or fold revolves around the inner surface of the outer wall.

1885 C. Leudesdorf tr. L. Cremona Elements Projective Geom. 205 If a straight line f revolve round a fixed point E.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 51/2 (advt.) The flywheel, as it revolves, casts some of the oil to the rear.

1951 ‘C. S. Forester’ Randall & River of Time (U.K. ed.) xiv. 207 He pressed a switch, the electric motor began to revolve, and the belt began slowly moving round the drums.

1960 W. Harris Palace of Peacock ii. 21 The outboard engine and propeller still revolved.

1993 V. E. Mitchell Windows on Lost World ii. 13 A hundred-meter-long tree, stripped of foliage, revolved lazily in the current as it raced downstream.

d. transitive. To follow (a circular course, orbit, etc.); to make (one's way) while turning about an axis.

ΚΠ

1767 A. Strahan tr. Virgil Aeneid II. x. 100 Young Pallas asks each constellation's name, How sable night revolves her course thro' heaven.

1774 F. Dobbs Patriot King ii. 24 E'er this sun revolves its course, The man..Shall be no more.

1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons xiii. lxxii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 647/1 Fortune.., calm and aloft amongst the other angelic powers, revolves her spheral course.

1867 C. A. Warfield Romance of Beauseincourt ix. 155 The earth, which still revolves its course in order and without any obvious manifestation of its internal heat.

1917 Munsey's Mag. Dec. 443/1 Twenty-four hours later saw the Minneapolis plunging and lifting through a swell that ran in the wake of a cyclone which had revolved its way up the coast.

2006 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 27 May e4 It's a sprawling melodrama of rebellion and redemption, set on a turntable stage that revolves its way through three decades in 19th-century France.

e. intransitive. With around. In extended use: to centre on a particular person or element; to treat something specified as a chief concern.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > mark or be the centre of [verb (transitive)] > centre in something

concentre1600

centre1603

incentre1611

revolve1815

sphere1852

1815 J. Debrett Baronetage Eng. II. 976 Even the prosperity of England, at certain periods, may be said to have revolved around him, as its primum mobile.

1897 J. Conrad Let. 13 Feb. in A. Ingram Joseph Conrad: Sel. Lit. Crit. (1986) 31 It is as good as anything of his—almost—a story of love and wrongheadedness revolving around a houseful of artistic furniture.

1924 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 5 Mar. 18/6 The climax of the story told revolves around Zev and his much ballyhooed visit to European tracks.

1956 N.Y. Times 8 Jan. x. 41/5 The issue revolves about a phenomenon peculiar to helicopters known as ground cushion effect.

2005 E. Bear Hammered 161 For reasons I do not entirely understand, everything that has been happening revolves around me.

7. transitive. To upset by revolution, place in turmoil. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > make revolutionary in character [verb (transitive)] > overthrow

upturna1340

overturna1382

subvert1474

invert1548

overthrow1567

wrake1570

revolve1609

to pull down1625

overset1679

1609 B. Jonson Case is Alterd iii. i. sig. G2^v O let me goe, you teare my haire, you reuolue [printed reluolue] my braines and vnderstanding.

1615 Wadsworth in Bedell's Lett. (1624) 10 His vnquietnesse and ambition, reuoluing the Commonwealth, and so vniustly expelling..the Bishop.

1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. x. 126 Caluin by his vnquietnes and ambition reuolued the State of Geneua.

2004 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 44 736 Improvement in the mode and substance of those institutions can occur when the spirit of a gentleman (Edmund) works with the spirit of religion (Fanny) to reform but not revolve the state/estate.

II. Senses in which mental activity is primary.

a. transitive. To consider, think over, ponder or meditate on (something). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > consider, deliberate [verb (transitive)]

i-thenchec897

showeOE

i-mune971

thinkOE

overthinkOE

takec1175

umbethinkc1175

waltc1200

bethinkc1220

wend?c1225

weighc1380

delivera1382

peisea1382

considerc1385

musec1390

to look over ——a1393

advise?c1400

debatec1400

roll?c1400

revert?a1425

advertc1425

deliberc1425

movec1425

musec1425

revolvec1425

contemplec1429

overseec1440

to think overc1440

perpend1447

roil1447

pondera1450

to eat inc1450

involvec1470

ponderate?a1475

reputec1475

counterpoise1477

poisea1483

traversec1487

umbecast1487

digest1488

undercast1489

overhalec1500

rumble1519

volve?1520

compassa1522

recount1526

trutinate1528

cast1530

expend1531

ruminate1533

concoct1534

contemplate1538

deliberate1540

revolute1553

chawa1558

to turn over1568

cud1569

cogitate1570

huik1570

chew1579

meditatec1580

discourse1581

speculate1599

theorize1599

scance1603

verse1614

pensitate1623

agitate1629

spell1633

study1659

designa1676

introspect1683

troll1685

balance1692

to figure on or upon1837

reflect1862

mull1873

to mull over1874

scour1882

mill1905

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 1096 (MED) Priam now in his entencioun Cast & compaseth, revolvyng vp & dovn How strong he was of riches & meyne.

c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 73 (MED) Y thenke most how y am a knyght, The oth therof and oth y to hir plight, Reuoluyng als this lijf a chere-fayre.

1509 S. Hawes Conuercyon Swerers (de Worde) xlvi I shall encrease And brynge you whiche reuolue inwardly This my complaynt to eternall glory.

1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 507 in Wks. (1931) I Off Flodoun feilde the rewyne to reuolfe..I nyll, for dreid that dolour ȝow dissolfe.

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ii. 16 For the residue of the day..[rather] to reuolve thinges reade before, than to reade or muse of newe.

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxii. xvi. 216 If any man wil with a quicke understanding revolve the manifold introductions into the intelligence of Divinitie.

a1674 Earl of Clarendon Brief View Leviathan (1676) 134 And I cannot enough recommend Mr. Hobbes, that he will revolve his own judgment and determination in this chapter.

1707 N. Rowe Golden Verses Pythagoras 44 Revolve the Getter's Joy and Loser's Pain, And think if it be worth thy while to gain.

1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. vi. 193 While I revolved the case of these unfortunate young ladies.

1823 T. De Quincey Lett. Young Man in London Mag. Jan. 85/1 As even I find, who have revolved the principal points almost daily for many years.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. v. 61 I have plenty of time to revolve my most uncomfortable thoughts.

1910 J. Farnol Broad Highway i. xii. 75 And beyond these two facts I could get no farther, revolve the matter how I might.

1963 Times 23 Jan. 10/5 Lord Morrison looked down, conceivably revolving whatever thoughts may occur to one who might have been leader of the Opposition.

1994 L. de Bernières Capt. Corelli's Mandolin xxiv. 158 I would have gone anywhere just for a tranquil life where I could revolve my memories and scratch my wounds.

b. intransitive. To deliberate or consider; to meditate or think on (also upon) something. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > think about, consider [verb (intransitive)]

thinkOE

bethinka1200

umthinka1300

to have mind ofc1300

casta1340

studya1375

delivera1382

to chew the cudc1384

to take advisementa1393

stema1400

compassc1400

advisec1405

deliberc1405

to make it wisec1405

to take deliberationc1405

enter?a1413

riddlec1426

hovec1440

devise?c1450

to study by (also in) oneself?c1450

considerc1460

porec1500

regard1523

deliberate1543

to put on one's thinking or considering cap1546

contemplate1560

consult1565

perpend1568

vise1568

to consider of1569

weigh1573

ruminate1574

dascanc1579

to lay to (one's) heart1588

pondera1593

debate1594

reflect1596

comment1597

perponder1599

revolvea1600

rumine1605

consider on, upon1606

to think twice1623

reflex1631

spell1645

ponderatea1652

to turn about1725

to cast a thought, a reflection upon1736

to wake over1771

incubatea1847

mull1857

fink1888

a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 520 This Donewald..Oft in his mynd revoluand to and fro [etc.].

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. v. 138 If this fall into thy hand, reuolue .

1622 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 2nd Bk. ix. 157 With a hellish ratiocination ruminating and reuoluing on the manner thereof, hee..at last resolves to poyson her.

1699 J. Pomfret Fortunate Complaint 3 As Strephon..Revolving lay upon his wretched state.

1729 N. Robinson New Syst. Spleen i. i. 22 They revolve long upon the same Ideas.

1785 W. Paley Princ. Moral & Polit. Philos. vi. viii. 511 To a mind revolving upon the subject of human jurisprudence.

1809 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 904 Personal injuries he revolved on in secret.

1843 J. Dresser in Brit. Pulpit 5 283 He revolved upon the irrevocable purposes of Jehovah.

1909 E. Phillpotts Haven (1913) xi. 91 His mind revolved upon the coming grief of his daughter.

1961 E. E. Y. Hales Emperor & Pope 9 His mind revolved over and over, on Saint Helena, pondering all the might-have-beens of his career.

9. transitive. To turn (something) over in the mind (breast, thoughts, etc.). Occasionally intransitive with thoughts as subject.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > meditate upon [verb (transitive)]

thinkOE

overthinkOE

recorda1400

studya1400

imaginec1405

revolve?c1425

contemplairec1525

brood1589

recollect1626

?c1425 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Royal 17 D.vi) (1860) 1 (MED) Besily in my mynde I gan revolve The welthe unsure of every creature.

1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. v. 58 How be hit ye may reuolue hit in your mynde.

a1500 (a1475) G. Ashby Dicta Philosophorum 125 in Poems (1899) 48 (MED) Ye may Reuolue in cogitacion That here ther is no longe habitacion.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) v. xiii. l. 34 Venus,..Amyd hir breist reuoluand mony a thocht, Spak to Neptune.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xlvij^v When he reuolued in his wauerynge mynde howe greate a founteyne of mischiefe towarde hym shoulde sprynge.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 187 Reuolfe this mater in ȝour mynd.

1632 H. Hawkins Hist. S. Elizabeth ii. xi. 275 A thousand such conceipts she reuolued in mynd.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 185 Musing and much revolving in his brest, How best the mighty work he might begin.

1704 M. Prior Let. to Boileau Despreaux 128 The great Design revolving in his Mind.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. vii. 210 The projects which the Commodore revolved in his thoughts.

1787 F. Burney Diary 5 Jan. (1842) III. 274 My plan having long been revolving in my head, I had ventured..to hint at it [etc.].

a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury xi, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 298 Revolving in his mind some subtle feat Of thievish craft.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. ii. 19 The problem that Mr. Casson had been revolving in his mind for the last five minutes.

1905 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 174 494/2 Having now gone over your patient thoroughly..you revolve in your mind the course you intend pursuing.

1957 R. H. Fife Revolt Martin Luther xxv. 489 Here Luther touched upon a question that he had revolved in his mind with earnestness during the preceding months.

1994 P. O'Brian Commodore (1996) ii. 46 Jack was revolving this in his mind, an aphorism just out of reach.

2007 R. L. Mack Sweeney Todd xiv. 135 During his ride, he revolved in his mind exactly what he should say to John Mundel.

†10. transitive. To search through, study, or read (a book, or the works of an author). Also in figurative context. Cf. to turn over 2a at turn v. Phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > reading > [verb (transitive)]

readOE

turnc1300

see1379

revolve1485

peruse1532

supervise1541

society > communication > reading > [verb (transitive)] > turn pages

to turn overc1405

revolve1485

volve1523

toss1555

verse1606

society > education > learning > study > [verb (transitive)] > study by reading

studya1425

revolve1485

to read up1842

1485 Croniclis of Englonde (St. Albans) i. sig. a.viii^v Yf ye reuolue & loke the hystoryes ye shall fynd that iij. thynges principall broght men to ydolatri.

?a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Sheep & Dog l. 1216 in Poems (1981) 50 Of ciuile mony volum thay reuolue.

a1525 Bk. Chess 1692 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I And to revolf the bukis..Off..Galiene.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) sig. Iiiij^v As I reuolued the registers in the Capitol, I redde a ryght meruailous thynge.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 60 From thy byrth to thys moment of thine vnbeleefe, reuolue the diarie of thy memory.

1644 J. Milton tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce 24 Of the cleer judgement of your royall Majesty I nothing doubt, revolving the Scripture so often as yee doe.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 259 This having heard, strait I again revolv'd The Law and Prophets.

1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 399 Around my Throne the Letter'd Rabbins stand, Historic Leaves revolve, long Volumes spread.

1758 W. Whitehead in R. Dodsley Coll. of Poems VI. 57 As my eye revolves the historic page.

1805 W. Richardson Poems & Plays I. 32 I trim my lamp, revolve the page And scan the labours of the sage.

1863 C. Reade Hard Cash II. x. 86 Revolve a page of human history often turned by the people, but too little studied by statisticians and legislators.

†11. transitive. To foreordain, predetermine (an event, fate). Cf. spin v. 4a. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > must as decreed by fate [verb (intransitive)] > predestine

ordaina1425

revolvea1522

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. i. l. 33 The fatale sisteris reuolue and schaw, scho kend, Of Troiane blude a pepill suld discend.

1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. G2^v O cruel Themis that didst reuolue such vneuitable fate.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	revolve
释义	revolven. Brit. /rᵻˈvɒlv/, U.S. /rəˈvɔlv/, /riˈvɔlv/, /rəˈvɑlv/, /riˈvɑlv/ Forms: 1500s revolve, 1600s– reuolue. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: revolve v. Etymology: < revolve v. Compare earlier revolving n. and revolution n. With sense 3 compare earlier revolving stage n. at revolving adj. Compounds. †1. Determination, contemplation. Cf. revolve v. 8b. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [noun] i-mindOE studyinglOE mindc1300 bethinking1340 poring1340 regard1348 weighingc1380 contemplationc1390 advisementa1393 deliberationa1393 advicec1405 reckoninga1413 visement?1414 considerancec1420 advisenessc1425 revolutionc1425 rewardc1432 mind-takingc1449 umbethinkingc1450 advisednessc1475 considering1483 beholding1530 meditationa1535 pondering1535 cogitation?1542 expending1545 ponderation1556 perpending1558 well weighing1566 surview1576 reflex1593 revolve1595 lucubration1596 agitation1600 perpension1612 vizamenta1616 pensitation1623 perpensation1623 perpendment1667 ruminating1668 commentationa1670 revolving1670 reflectiona1674 introspectiona1676 propendencya1676 ponderment1728 chawing1845 1595 G. Markham Most Honorable Trag. Sir R. Grinuile D iij When Midelton saw Grinuills hie reuolue, Past hope, past thought,..Once more to moue him flie, he doth resolue. 2. An act of rotation; a revolution. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [noun] swayc1374 turning1390 overwhelming?a1439 circumvolution1447 winding1530 conversion1541 rotationa1550 revolution1566 gyring?1578 revolve1598 circulation1605 gyration1615 evolution1654 sweep1679 gyrating1837 revolving1867 1598 S. Brandon Tragicomoedi of Vertuous Octauia i. sig. A.vi You, that enforce weake fame to royallize, Such high reuolues, as farre surpasse her might. 1641 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 30 608 If the Screws keep an exact Equality of Motion forward in each Revolve, it is a most admirable Invention. 1690 T. D'Urfey Collin's Walk i. 31 In all revolves and turns of State Decreed by (what dee call him) Fate. a1718 J. Bulkeley Last-day (1719) x. 322 Till Time's last Moment wearys i'th' Revolve. 1797 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 965/2 Him worship in a less refulgent ray, And let thy praises, each revolve thou mak'st, Be vary'd as thy change. a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) II. 157 Each revolve Of the recording sun conducts us on. 1822 ‘B. Cornwall’ Two Dreams 43 The stars Went round and round, their circles lessening At each revolve. 1839 Metrop. Mag. 25 301 The minute hand seemed to have made a resolve not to make a revolve. 2005 Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois) 13 Oct. 1 The revolve [of the stage] symbolizes the passage of time. 3. Theatre. A turntable or other device for moving a piece of stage scenery, esp. during a scene change; a piece of scenery moved in this way; (now chiefly) (in full revolve stage) spec. = revolving stage n. at revolving adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > other types of stage platform stage1869 revolve1900 apron stage1903 picture stage1908 space stage1928 open stage1940 thrust stage1968 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > scenery > pieces of side shutter1634 drop1781 flat1795 back-scene1818 border1824 profile1824 act drop1829 set piece1859 profiling1861 profile wing1873 backing1889 profile piece1896 revolve1900 construction1924 wood-wing1933 cutout1949 1900 Westm. Gaz. 18 May 4/2 In the course of the change a massive piece of scenery..is moved bodily from one side of the stage to the other. Nearly at the top of this ‘revolve’, as it is technically called, is the window. 1926 E. B. Tweedie Adventurous Journey ii. 22 Furniture that could not arrive with the revolve came in on strings from the sides. 1938 Times 25 Aug. 8/4 A new electric revolve has been installed in place of the winch-controlled one. 1959 Punch 20 May 688/3 It is a big stage... In the middle is a revolve that goes round as easily as a bicycle wheel. 1972 T. Stoppard Jumpers 11 The National Theatre production was mounted on a revolve stage. 1980 Daily Tel. 29 Aug. 10/5 The technical difficulties bedevil the scenery hoists and drum revolve. 2007 Daily Tel. 9 Feb. 3/3 The stage of the Grade I listed theatre is being rebuilt for £1 million to accommodate three revolves and 17 lifts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). revolvev. Brit. /rᵻˈvɒlv/, U.S. /rəˈvɔlv/, /riˈvɔlv/, /rəˈvɑlv/, /riˈvɑlv/ Forms: late Middle English–1600s reuolue, late Middle English– revolve, 1500s reuolde (past tense), 1500s reuolve, 1500s–1600s revolue; also Scottish pre-1700 reuolfe, pre-1700 reuolwe, pre-1700 revolf, pre-1700 rewolf, pre-1700 rewoll. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French revolver; Latin revolvere. Etymology: < Middle French revolver to turn (something), to turn (something) over in the mind (c1400 or earlier) and its etymon classical Latin revolvere to roll back or aside, to roll back to the start, to roll back (a scroll) in order to read it, to go back over in thought or speech, to cause to travel in a circular course, to cause to return (to a point in a cycle), to bring round again, (in passive) to fall back again, to relapse, to revert or be brought back < re- re- prefix + volvere volve v. Compare Spanish revolver (13th cent.), Portuguese revolver (13th cent.), Italian rivolgere (a1292). Compare earlier revolution n., and also revolving n. I. Senses in which physical movement is primary. †1. transitive. To cause to roll; to move by rolling. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move or cause to move progressively in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > cause to roll along wallowa1380 rolla1398 revolve?a1425 trollc1450 bowl1580 trundle1598 run1889 ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 90^v (MED) Þe roller schal ben firste duced towarde þe bodie..reuoluynge þe rollere apon þe parties þat lien nye þe wounde. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 3919 (MED) From þe hil þe water is revolvid Of snowys white, þat Phebus hath dissoluyd. ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Piv^v Let them be applyed vpon the sayde places in reuoluynge them contynually from one place to another that they cleue nat to the flesshe. †2. transitive. To bind (a limb), tie or wrap up; to intertwine. Also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] bewindOE writheOE windc1175 bewrap?c1225 lapa1300 umbelaya1300 umbeweave1338 wlappec1380 enwrapa1382 wrapa1382 inlap1382 envelop1386 forwrapc1386 hapc1390 umbeclapa1400 umbethonrea1400 umblaya1400 wapc1420 biwlappea1425 revolve?a1425 to roll up?a1425 roll?c1425 to roll ina1475 wimple1513 to wind up?1533 invest1548 circumvolve1607 awrap1609 weave1620 sheet1621 obvolve1623 embowdle1625 amict1657 wry1674 woold1775 overwrap1815 wrapper1885 wrapper1905 weve- ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 75^v Ligature..is made wiþ a long bende..bigynnyng at þe partie opposite of þe wonde..& reuoluyng [?c1425 Paris wrappynge] þe 2 endez aboue þe wonde. 1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. F.vii^v Small..vaynes, reuoluing them self in & out a thousand fold & manifold wise intricat together. 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 21/2 A certayn kind of ligament, as is that wherwith we revolve a fracture of a Legge, that the one half therof cover the other. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 250 These three reuolu'd in one, Points forth the Pope. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 334 The commendation of which Cities rest reuolu'd in these following verses. 3. a. transitive. To turn, bring, or roll back (into a place or state) (also †unto, †upon a person); to restore. Now rare.In quot. 1431 perhaps an error for renoveld (see renovel v.). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > a thing to or into previous condition reversec1350 reforma1393 recover1393 converta1425 reduce?a1425 revolve1431 returnc1436 recure?1440 remayne1481 relieve1483 redressc1500 restaur1508 reprieve?1567 recollect1606 redeem1613 regain1624 to bring back1662 re-reducea1676 1431 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1431 §16. m. 8 Þe saide prison..was throwen doune; and of almesse..revolved and made agayn in a better maner. c1450 tr. Secreta Secret. (Royal) 21 What disese the planetis shewe in her worchyng good men mowe so preye vnto god..that god wille turne, revolue, and reuoke alle that men dowte. 1538 Prymer in Eng. after Vse of Sarum sig. P iii^v I shall reuolue all my yeres vnto the with great bytternes of herte. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. f. 347^v Time euer old, and yonge is still reuolued Within it selfe, and neuer tasteth ende. 1622 E. Misselden Free Trade 127 The Current once diuerted will hardly bee reuolued into its genuine Source and Course againe. 1659 J. Milton Considerations touching Hirelings To Parl. sig. A5^v The care and tuition of whose peace and safety..is now again by a new dawning of Gods miraculous providence among us, revolvd upon your shoulders. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 53 And the four Elements..shall maintain a dreadful fight, so long and so fiercely..that at last all will be revolved into a dark confusion. 1731 I. Thompson Coll. Poems 54 Nay, sooner Xanthus will revolve his Course! 1888 Academy 28 Jan. 63/2 Is it always right to ask which came first and which came last, whether folly was evolved into wisdom or wisdom revolved into folly? 1905 Cleveland Med. & Surg. Rep. Mar. 98 The organization..is revolved into that matter from which the forces of life had rescued it. b. intransitive. To return or turn back to a person or place; to revert or regress to (also into) a state or condition; (occasionally) to move on or around to (a person, etc.). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [verb (intransitive)] to wend againeOE i-cherrec1000 again-chareOE again-comeOE again-fareOE again-goOE eft-sithec1175 to turn againc1175 returna1325 attournec1386 turnc1390 recovera1393 repair?c1400 recourse?a1425 to go backc1425 resortc1425 revertc1475 renew1488 retour?1505 to make return1534 to turn back1538 retend1543 to come short home1548 regress1552 rejourna1556 revolt1567 revolve1587 repeal1596 recur1612 rewend1616 revene1656 to get back1664 to take back1674 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > return towards point of departure repaira1325 returna1325 rebounda1382 redounda1382 recovera1393 to go backc1425 revertc1475 renew1488 reverse1542 retire1567 revolve1587 reciprocate1623 retrovert1639 to get back1664 recur1719 hoicks1762 boomerang1900 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 141/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II What should be the cause that they should thus rage, and so wickedlie and suddenlie reuolue, as dogs to their vomits, so they to their treasons. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. v. vii. 179 They would in time, of themselues reuolue to that first neglectiue condition. 1682 J. Howe Right Use Argument 54 We are revolving, and rolling back, out of our single, and separate state, into our original, most natural state, of subordination to God. a1700 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 111 As soon might the Autumnal Sun To Libra, when its Course was run, Revolve, till it to Aries reel'd. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 81 The Jurisdiction does ipso Jure revolve to the Judge a Quo. 1755 H. Walpole Let. 21 Dec. in Corr. (1960) XX. 518 You will smile at seeing Doddington again revolved to the Court. 1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 3 Public accounts formerly printed and reprinted revolve once more, and find their old station in this sober meridian. 1782 W. Anderson Hist. France IV. i. ii. 28 The kingdom would have soon revolved into a state little different from feudal independence. a1876 G. Dawson Biogr. Lect. (1886) xxi. 252 Sunlike, he has remained still, and the world has revolved to him. 1884 Brit. & Foreign Evangelical Rev. Mar. 127 He has revolved to the spot of his nativity. 1906 W. H. R. Rivers Todas xxii. 538 I had the option of claiming the first three children, Khakhood the second three, and Tūmbŭt the third. Three; when the option again revolved to me. c. intransitive. To move around, as in order or sequence; (in extended use) to evolve (into). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > come in due order or course [verb (intransitive)] > go from one to another of a series revolve1681 1681 R. Baxter Apol. Nonconformists Ministry 82 I came away from the place I was at before the Sequestration revolved to the Vicar. 1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 131 A world-wearied man..could not do better than revolve amongst these modest inns. 1919 C. F. Frazier in H. T. Schnittkind Best College Short Stories 1917–18 53 Discussions had such a way, at the most interesting point, of revolving into monologues. 1967 Jrnl. Soc. Hist. 1 164 Upon the death of a householder, all his property was divided equally between his sons and brothers, and the title of ‘head’ revolved to the eldest brother. 1987 I. Sinclair White Chappell Scarlet Tracings iv. 43 In the street outside D/S Clark and Policewoman Dudley..revolve between the pub, which is the busiest brothel between Cable Street and Whitechapel..and the half-squat. 4. a. intransitive. Of (a period of) time: to continue in its passage or revolution; to go around, as if on an axis, so as to return to the equivalent point (in the next year, etc.); to come round again. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > cycle of time > [verb (intransitive)] > turn, cycle, or revolve (of time) revolve1449 cycle1842 wheela1849 J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) 177 (MED) In June, the qwyche the nest month ys aftyr May, The yere reuoluyd; fro the tyme the olde tempyl fyl The nwe was made and complet be xxti day. 1578 R. Robinson tr. Dyall of Dayly Contemplacion Pref. And thus our tyme reuoluing by continuall alteration..succeedeth dollorus Death: the which no man by naturall course can eschue. 1635 G. Wither Coll. Emblemes i. 4 Time may so revolve againe, at last, That New-Occasions may be offred thee. 1654 M. Stevenson Occasions Off-spring 111 Natures appointed time of change revolves, And it into his elements desolves. 1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 387 The Sun will keep his Pace, and Time revolve, Rough Winters pass, and Springs come smiling on. 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 34 The year revolves, and I again explore The simple Annals of my Parish-poor. 1872 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 24 Aug. 220/2 As time revolves, new exigencies are developed. 1937 F. M. Cornford Plato's Cosmology 104 Proclus remarks on this that Time revolves as the first among things that are moved. 1987 L. Murray Coll. Poems (1991) 291 As grass tips turn maroon in a further winter I present how time revolved through the spiral of a year. †b. transitive. To bring round in the course of time. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [verb (transitive)] > bring round or bring nearer acceleratec1522 revolvea1591 a1591 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 487 [I] yet desire to be dissolv'd (When my due date shall be revolv'd) As more happy far for me. †c. transitive. To bring round again to some position. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > intend [verb (transitive)] > direct actions, speech, etc., towards > bring round again to some position revolve1651 1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Dying ii. §1 51 When they are passively revolved to the time of their dissolution they have no mercies in store. 1653 T. Manton Pract. Comm. James v. 17 This plainly revolveth you to the tenor of the old covenant, and maketh works the ground of your acceptance with God. 1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. i. iii. 32 As for predisposition, the question will be revolved to the same point. 5. transitive. To turn (the eyes or one's gaze) back or round; to move (the eye or eyes) sideways; to look by moving (the eyes) in this way. Also in figurative context. Cf. roll v.² 21b. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > turn (eyes) round revolve1523 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 664 Then furthermore aboute me my syght I reuolde. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxxxiii If such men wolden their eyen of their conscience reuoluen, shulden sene the same sentence they legen on other, springe out of their sydes. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. X4 Revolve he did his loving eye;..And looking back, that look did sever Him and Euridice for ever. 1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. iii. 147 Let him into himself revolve his Eye. 1724 L. Welsted Epist. 96 All lofty does he rise, And round the Fane revolves his flaming Eyes. 1794 Universal Mag. June 442/1 In kindred glooms, revolve thy baleful haggard eye. 1860 E. G. Parker Reminisc. Rufus Choate iv. 196 Choate drew himself up to his full height, threw back his head, and..revolved his blazing eyes back a little over the scene. 1899 Harper's Mag. Mar. 660/2 Uncle Bentley was seen to revolve one eyeball the merest trifle as he watched the rabbit. 1902 M. K. Bellow Tales from Tennyson 79 He revolved his eyes about the bare hall. 1961 D. Attenborough Zoo Quest to Madagascar viii. 94 We left him there, glowering ferociously and revolving his eyes. 1991 J. Pilkington Englishman in Patagonia 11 I let my gaze revolve slowly across the 180-degree horizon. 6. a. transitive. To cause (something) to move in a circle or to travel in an orbit around a central point; to rotate (a thing) about an axis.Quot. 1778, which erroneously read revolving in N.E.D. (1908), was there made the basis of a sense 11c ‘to wind spirally’. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)] turnOE trillc1386 gyrec1420 rote?1533 tirl1543 to turn round1555 revolve1559 circumvert1578 circumgyre1635 circumrote1635 circumgyrate1647 circumvolve1647 veera1649 twist1769 rotate1777 sphere1820 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > cause to move in circle or curve [verb (transitive)] > move in circle round something umgoa1300 compassc1384 gyrec1420 environ?a1425 circuitc1550 revolve1559 circle1582 to put (also make, cast) a girdle (round) about1600 encirclea1616 encompass1640 whirla1657 circulate1685 gird1688 circumgyrate1868 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 15 There can be but one axe tree, on whiche the sphere, or globe, is reuoluid. 1614 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Little Bartas in tr. J. Bertaut Parl. Vertues Royal 239 Though, in Times Terms the Heav'ns reuolued be; A Thousand Yeers are but One Day with Thee. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 381 Then in the East her turn she shines, Revolvd on Heavn's great Axle. View more context for this quotation 1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 25 There could not possibly arise in the Chaos any Vortices..either to form the Globes of the Planets, or to revolve them when formed. 1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. II. iv. §3. 473 The Body which is urg'd by a Centripetal Force..is Revolv'd along with L. 1755 Man No. 50. 3 When he stretches out his arm it serves as a bar of defence, which, when he revolves it, acts as a sling. 1778 J. Cook Jrnl. 18 June (1967) III. i. 381 From above and behind each eye arises an elegant yellowish white crest revolv'd backwards as a rams horn. 1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 15 Some mechanical adjunct for revolving the chamber. 1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 312/2 It [sc. the gun] is placed opposite the loading gear by revolving the turn-table. 1918 F. D. Jones Mechanisms & Mech. Movements ii. 58 In the case of a ‘fly-ball’ governor, weights or balls attached to pivoted levers are revolved by the engine. 1946 National Geographic Mag. July 76 Spotting smoke, the guard revolves the ring and adjusts the sights until the base of the smoke appears in the cross hairs of the front sight. 1972 M. Kline Math. Thought vii. 168 Ellipsoids,..formed by revolving an ellipse about its major axis. 1991 D. Wells Penguin Dict. Curious & Interesting Geom. 199 The pseudosphere is constructed by revolving a tractrix about its axis. b. intransitive. Esp. of a celestial object: to perform a circular (or elliptical) motion; to orbit about (also round, around) a central point. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > move in a circle or curve [verb (intransitive)] > move in a circle to go aboutOE whirlc1290 circule1430 circlec1440 to cast, fet, fetch, go, take a compass?a1500 circuit1611 circumgyre1634 revolve1660 circulate1672 orba1821 circumvolve1841 to loop the loop1902 orbit1948 1660 T. Salusbury tr. D. Bartoli Learned Man defended & Reform'd i. 27 Seeing himself crowned with a world of starres, which did revolve about him. 1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth i. 22 All Bodies..which revolve in Curves..are attracted..continually towards that Point or Center. 1713 G. Berkeley in Guardian 5 Aug. 1/1 Those Bodies that revolve round the Sun. ?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 449/2 It will then be..forced to revolve about S in the circle BYTU. 1801 C. Smith Lett. Solitary Wanderer II. 84 Whose beams enlighten and cherish the unknown worlds which revolve around them. 1854 Lardner's Museum Sci. & Art i. ii. 23 The three planets Mars, Venus and Mercury, which, with the Earth, revolve nearest to the Sun. 1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. §142 The only satellite which takes a longer time to revolve round its primary than our Moon. 1930 J. H. Jeans Universe around Us (ed. 2) iv. 226 A system of tiny satellites revolving around the earth. 1975 Sci. Amer. June 67/1 Each star..may be rotating on an axis, or revolving around a companion. 1997 New Scientist 12 July 28/2 Most Local Group members revolve around either Andromeda or the Milky Way, just as the Moon orbits the Earth. c. intransitive. To rotate on an axis or around a centre (also in extended use, of a static structure). Also (of an engine or machine): to run so that its rotating parts are in motion. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] wharvec888 turnOE runOE to turn aboutOE to turn roundc1450 to go roundc1460 revolute1553 gyre1598 veer1605 to come about1607 circumvolve1626 circumgyre1634 to turn around1642 roll1646 revolve1660 circulate1672 twist1680 circumgyrate1683 rotate1757 gyrate1830 1660 T. Salusbury tr. D. Bartoli Learned Man defended & Reform'd ii. 156 As are the double motion of the Sun, that in the fashion of a Top, firmly revolves in it self; and on the Poles of his Axis. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Earth For a Body, revolving on its Axis, the Parts..are continually endeavouring to recede from the Centre. 1795 J. Banks Treat. Mills iv. 152 The water is applied at the center, the wheel revolves 13.03 times in one minute. 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. ix. 173 The pannelling..was made to revolve upon hinges. 1876 J. S. Whiteaves Mesozoic Fossils I. 214 Longitudinal sections show that a triangular and acutely pointed spiral ridge or fold revolves around the inner surface of the outer wall. 1885 C. Leudesdorf tr. L. Cremona Elements Projective Geom. 205 If a straight line f revolve round a fixed point E. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 51/2 (advt.) The flywheel, as it revolves, casts some of the oil to the rear. 1951 ‘C. S. Forester’ Randall & River of Time (U.K. ed.) xiv. 207 He pressed a switch, the electric motor began to revolve, and the belt began slowly moving round the drums. 1960 W. Harris Palace of Peacock ii. 21 The outboard engine and propeller still revolved. 1993 V. E. Mitchell Windows on Lost World ii. 13 A hundred-meter-long tree, stripped of foliage, revolved lazily in the current as it raced downstream. d. transitive. To follow (a circular course, orbit, etc.); to make (one's way) while turning about an axis. ΚΠ 1767 A. Strahan tr. Virgil Aeneid II. x. 100 Young Pallas asks each constellation's name, How sable night revolves her course thro' heaven. 1774 F. Dobbs Patriot King ii. 24 E'er this sun revolves its course, The man..Shall be no more. 1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons xiii. lxxii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 647/1 Fortune.., calm and aloft amongst the other angelic powers, revolves her spheral course. 1867 C. A. Warfield Romance of Beauseincourt ix. 155 The earth, which still revolves its course in order and without any obvious manifestation of its internal heat. 1917 Munsey's Mag. Dec. 443/1 Twenty-four hours later saw the Minneapolis plunging and lifting through a swell that ran in the wake of a cyclone which had revolved its way up the coast. 2006 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 27 May e4 It's a sprawling melodrama of rebellion and redemption, set on a turntable stage that revolves its way through three decades in 19th-century France. e. intransitive. With around. In extended use: to centre on a particular person or element; to treat something specified as a chief concern. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > mark or be the centre of [verb (transitive)] > centre in something concentre1600 centre1603 incentre1611 revolve1815 sphere1852 1815 J. Debrett Baronetage Eng. II. 976 Even the prosperity of England, at certain periods, may be said to have revolved around him, as its primum mobile. 1897 J. Conrad Let. 13 Feb. in A. Ingram Joseph Conrad: Sel. Lit. Crit. (1986) 31 It is as good as anything of his—almost—a story of love and wrongheadedness revolving around a houseful of artistic furniture. 1924 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 5 Mar. 18/6 The climax of the story told revolves around Zev and his much ballyhooed visit to European tracks. 1956 N.Y. Times 8 Jan. x. 41/5 The issue revolves about a phenomenon peculiar to helicopters known as ground cushion effect. 2005 E. Bear Hammered 161 For reasons I do not entirely understand, everything that has been happening revolves around me. 7. transitive. To upset by revolution, place in turmoil. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > make revolutionary in character [verb (transitive)] > overthrow upturna1340 overturna1382 subvert1474 invert1548 overthrow1567 wrake1570 revolve1609 to pull down1625 overset1679 1609 B. Jonson Case is Alterd iii. i. sig. G2^v O let me goe, you teare my haire, you reuolue [printed reluolue] my braines and vnderstanding. 1615 Wadsworth in Bedell's Lett. (1624) 10 His vnquietnesse and ambition, reuoluing the Commonwealth, and so vniustly expelling..the Bishop. 1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. x. 126 Caluin by his vnquietnes and ambition reuolued the State of Geneua. 2004 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 44 736 Improvement in the mode and substance of those institutions can occur when the spirit of a gentleman (Edmund) works with the spirit of religion (Fanny) to reform but not revolve the state/estate. II. Senses in which mental activity is primary. 8. a. transitive. To consider, think over, ponder or meditate on (something). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > consider, deliberate [verb (transitive)] i-thenchec897 showeOE i-mune971 thinkOE overthinkOE takec1175 umbethinkc1175 waltc1200 bethinkc1220 wend?c1225 weighc1380 delivera1382 peisea1382 considerc1385 musec1390 to look over ——a1393 advise?c1400 debatec1400 roll?c1400 revert?a1425 advertc1425 deliberc1425 movec1425 musec1425 revolvec1425 contemplec1429 overseec1440 to think overc1440 perpend1447 roil1447 pondera1450 to eat inc1450 involvec1470 ponderate?a1475 reputec1475 counterpoise1477 poisea1483 traversec1487 umbecast1487 digest1488 undercast1489 overhalec1500 rumble1519 volve?1520 compassa1522 recount1526 trutinate1528 cast1530 expend1531 ruminate1533 concoct1534 contemplate1538 deliberate1540 revolute1553 chawa1558 to turn over1568 cud1569 cogitate1570 huik1570 chew1579 meditatec1580 discourse1581 speculate1599 theorize1599 scance1603 verse1614 pensitate1623 agitate1629 spell1633 view1637 study1659 designa1676 introspect1683 troll1685 balance1692 to figure on or upon1837 reflect1862 mull1873 to mull over1874 scour1882 mill1905 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 1096 (MED) Priam now in his entencioun Cast & compaseth, revolvyng vp & dovn How strong he was of riches & meyne. c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 73 (MED) Y thenke most how y am a knyght, The oth therof and oth y to hir plight, Reuoluyng als this lijf a chere-fayre. 1509 S. Hawes Conuercyon Swerers (de Worde) xlvi I shall encrease And brynge you whiche reuolue inwardly This my complaynt to eternall glory. 1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 507 in Wks. (1931) I Off Flodoun feilde the rewyne to reuolfe..I nyll, for dreid that dolour ȝow dissolfe. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ii. 16 For the residue of the day..[rather] to reuolve thinges reade before, than to reade or muse of newe. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxii. xvi. 216 If any man wil with a quicke understanding revolve the manifold introductions into the intelligence of Divinitie. a1674 Earl of Clarendon Brief View Leviathan (1676) 134 And I cannot enough recommend Mr. Hobbes, that he will revolve his own judgment and determination in this chapter. 1707 N. Rowe Golden Verses Pythagoras 44 Revolve the Getter's Joy and Loser's Pain, And think if it be worth thy while to gain. 1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. vi. 193 While I revolved the case of these unfortunate young ladies. 1823 T. De Quincey Lett. Young Man in London Mag. Jan. 85/1 As even I find, who have revolved the principal points almost daily for many years. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. v. 61 I have plenty of time to revolve my most uncomfortable thoughts. 1910 J. Farnol Broad Highway i. xii. 75 And beyond these two facts I could get no farther, revolve the matter how I might. 1963 Times 23 Jan. 10/5 Lord Morrison looked down, conceivably revolving whatever thoughts may occur to one who might have been leader of the Opposition. 1994 L. de Bernières Capt. Corelli's Mandolin xxiv. 158 I would have gone anywhere just for a tranquil life where I could revolve my memories and scratch my wounds. b. intransitive. To deliberate or consider; to meditate or think on (also upon) something. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > think about, consider [verb (intransitive)] thinkOE thinkOE bethinka1200 umthinka1300 to have mind ofc1300 casta1340 studya1375 delivera1382 to chew the cudc1384 to take advisementa1393 stema1400 compassc1400 advisec1405 deliberc1405 to make it wisec1405 to take deliberationc1405 enter?a1413 riddlec1426 hovec1440 devise?c1450 to study by (also in) oneself?c1450 considerc1460 porec1500 regard1523 deliberate1543 to put on one's thinking or considering cap1546 contemplate1560 consult1565 perpend1568 vise1568 to consider of1569 weigh1573 ruminate1574 dascanc1579 to lay to (one's) heart1588 pondera1593 debate1594 reflect1596 comment1597 perponder1599 revolvea1600 rumine1605 consider on, upon1606 to think twice1623 reflex1631 spell1645 ponderatea1652 to turn about1725 to cast a thought, a reflection upon1736 to wake over1771 incubatea1847 mull1857 fink1888 a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 520 This Donewald..Oft in his mynd revoluand to and fro [etc.]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. v. 138 If this fall into thy hand, reuolue . View more context for this quotation 1622 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 2nd Bk. ix. 157 With a hellish ratiocination ruminating and reuoluing on the manner thereof, hee..at last resolves to poyson her. 1699 J. Pomfret Fortunate Complaint 3 As Strephon..Revolving lay upon his wretched state. 1729 N. Robinson New Syst. Spleen i. i. 22 They revolve long upon the same Ideas. 1785 W. Paley Princ. Moral & Polit. Philos. vi. viii. 511 To a mind revolving upon the subject of human jurisprudence. 1809 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 904 Personal injuries he revolved on in secret. 1843 J. Dresser in Brit. Pulpit 5 283 He revolved upon the irrevocable purposes of Jehovah. 1909 E. Phillpotts Haven (1913) xi. 91 His mind revolved upon the coming grief of his daughter. 1961 E. E. Y. Hales Emperor & Pope 9 His mind revolved over and over, on Saint Helena, pondering all the might-have-beens of his career. 9. transitive. To turn (something) over in the mind (breast, thoughts, etc.). Occasionally intransitive with thoughts as subject. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > meditate upon [verb (transitive)] thinkOE overthinkOE recorda1400 studya1400 imaginec1405 revolve?c1425 contemplairec1525 brood1589 recollect1626 ?c1425 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Royal 17 D.vi) (1860) 1 (MED) Besily in my mynde I gan revolve The welthe unsure of every creature. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. v. 58 How be hit ye may reuolue hit in your mynde. a1500 (a1475) G. Ashby Dicta Philosophorum 125 in Poems (1899) 48 (MED) Ye may Reuolue in cogitacion That here ther is no longe habitacion. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) v. xiii. l. 34 Venus,..Amyd hir breist reuoluand mony a thocht, Spak to Neptune. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xlvij^v When he reuolued in his wauerynge mynde howe greate a founteyne of mischiefe towarde hym shoulde sprynge. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 187 Reuolfe this mater in ȝour mynd. 1632 H. Hawkins Hist. S. Elizabeth ii. xi. 275 A thousand such conceipts she reuolued in mynd. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 185 Musing and much revolving in his brest, How best the mighty work he might begin. View more context for this quotation 1704 M. Prior Let. to Boileau Despreaux 128 The great Design revolving in his Mind. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. vii. 210 The projects which the Commodore revolved in his thoughts. 1787 F. Burney Diary 5 Jan. (1842) III. 274 My plan having long been revolving in my head, I had ventured..to hint at it [etc.]. a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury xi, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 298 Revolving in his mind some subtle feat Of thievish craft. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. ii. 19 The problem that Mr. Casson had been revolving in his mind for the last five minutes. 1905 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 174 494/2 Having now gone over your patient thoroughly..you revolve in your mind the course you intend pursuing. 1957 R. H. Fife Revolt Martin Luther xxv. 489 Here Luther touched upon a question that he had revolved in his mind with earnestness during the preceding months. 1994 P. O'Brian Commodore (1996) ii. 46 Jack was revolving this in his mind, an aphorism just out of reach. 2007 R. L. Mack Sweeney Todd xiv. 135 During his ride, he revolved in his mind exactly what he should say to John Mundel. †10. transitive. To search through, study, or read (a book, or the works of an author). Also in figurative context. Cf. to turn over 2a at turn v. Phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > reading > [verb (transitive)] readOE turnc1300 see1379 revolve1485 peruse1532 supervise1541 society > communication > reading > [verb (transitive)] > turn pages to turn overc1405 revolve1485 volve1523 toss1555 verse1606 society > education > learning > study > [verb (transitive)] > study by reading studya1425 revolve1485 to read up1842 1485 Croniclis of Englonde (St. Albans) i. sig. a.viii^v Yf ye reuolue & loke the hystoryes ye shall fynd that iij. thynges principall broght men to ydolatri. ?a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Sheep & Dog l. 1216 in Poems (1981) 50 Of ciuile mony volum thay reuolue. a1525 Bk. Chess 1692 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I And to revolf the bukis..Off..Galiene. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) sig. Iiiij^v As I reuolued the registers in the Capitol, I redde a ryght meruailous thynge. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 60 From thy byrth to thys moment of thine vnbeleefe, reuolue the diarie of thy memory. 1644 J. Milton tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce 24 Of the cleer judgement of your royall Majesty I nothing doubt, revolving the Scripture so often as yee doe. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 259 This having heard, strait I again revolv'd The Law and Prophets. View more context for this quotation 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 399 Around my Throne the Letter'd Rabbins stand, Historic Leaves revolve, long Volumes spread. 1758 W. Whitehead in R. Dodsley Coll. of Poems VI. 57 As my eye revolves the historic page. 1805 W. Richardson Poems & Plays I. 32 I trim my lamp, revolve the page And scan the labours of the sage. 1863 C. Reade Hard Cash II. x. 86 Revolve a page of human history often turned by the people, but too little studied by statisticians and legislators. †11. transitive. To foreordain, predetermine (an event, fate). Cf. spin v. 4a. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > must as decreed by fate [verb (intransitive)] > predestine ordaina1425 revolvea1522 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. i. l. 33 The fatale sisteris reuolue and schaw, scho kend, Of Troiane blude a pepill suld discend. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. G2^v O cruel Themis that didst reuolue such vneuitable fate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1595v.?a1425
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