a. [f. L. ēvolūt- ppl. stem of ēvolvĕre: see EVOLVE.] Pertaining or tending to evolution or development; promoting evolution.
1874. Lewes, Problems Life & Mind, I. 112. The special evolutive conditions, namely, [etc.].
1883. Nature, 15 Feb., 367. The life of the sieve tubes may be divided into 2 periods; the evolutive and the passive.
1886. F. Myers, in Phantasms of the Living, I. Introd. 43. We have induced [by hypnotism] a change of personality which is not per se either evolutive or dissolutive.
