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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
revolute .
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Examples
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"revoluted" at discretion, or indiscretion, to the top of her bent.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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Head remarkably large, round, flattened at the top, compact; the leaves are of a peculiar, glaucous-green color, of thick texture, firm, and rather erect; the nerves large and prominent; the outer leaves of the head are usually revoluted on the borders; the loose leaves are numerous, and rarely rise above a level with the summit of the head; the stalk is short.
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Leaves of large size, yellowish-green, pointed, slightly undulated, entire on the borders, and often revoluted like those of the
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The loose leaves are few in number, often revoluted on the border, and comparatively smooth on the surface; nerves greenish-white.
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A comparatively small variety, with an oval, long, yellowish-green, but very compact head; leaves erect, inclining to bluish-green, long and narrow, revoluted on the borders, and finely fretted or blistered on the surface; stem rather high.
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Of course for years, as all women have been doing who are sensible enough to use the brains God gave them and stop depending on their centuries-seasoned intuitions and fascinations, I have been reading about this feminist revolution that seems all of a sudden to have revoluted from nobody knows where, and I have been generally indignant over things whether I understood them or not, and I have felt that I was being oppressed by the opposite sex, even if I could not locate the exact spot of the pain produced.
The Tinder-Box Maria Thompson Daviess 1898
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We're live at the edge of Sprigfield where Lisa Simpson, a long time green-then-exposed-redpeace-then-revoluted-into-just-peace activist has organized an event to save the Sprinfield's oldest tree.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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