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develope

Develop \De*vel"op\ (d[-e]*v[e^]l"[o^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Developed; p. pr. & vb. n. Developing.] [F. d['e]veloper; d['e]- (L. dis-) + OF. voluper, voleper, to envelop, perh. from L. volup agreeably, delightfully, and hence orig., to make agreeable or comfortable by enveloping, to keep snug (cf. Voluptuous); or. perh. fr. a derivative of volvere, volutum, to roll (cf. Devolve). Cf. Envelop.] [Written also develope.]

  1. To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power.

    These serve to develop its tenets.
    --Milner.

    The 20th was spent in strengthening our position and developing the line of the enemy.
    --The Century.

  2. To unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to cause to change gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind.

    The sound developed itself into a real compound.
    --J. Peile.

    All insects . . . acquire the jointed legs before the wings are fully developed.
    --Owen.

  3. To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of.

    We must develop our own resources to the utmost.
    --Jowett (Thucyd).

  4. (Math.) To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.

  5. (Photog.) To cause to become visible, as an invisible or latent image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to view.

    To develop a curved surface on a plane (Geom.), to produce on the plane an equivalent surface, as if by rolling the curved surface so that all parts shall successively touch the plane.

    Syn: To uncover; unfold; evolve; promote; project; lay open; disclose; exhibit; unravel; disentangle.

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develope

vb. (archaic spelling of develop English)

Usage examples of "develope".

Where the Ego camps had developed a passion for what they saw as self-determination, independence, and self-responsibility, the Eco camps displayed an equal passion for what they saw as unity, wholeness, harmony.

Chiefly in and by love, which is specifically adapted thus to develope this maturity.

The eye becomes more brilliant and sparkling, the patient is less morose, his digestion improves, he is less listless and despondent, takes more interest in business and other affairs, his sleep is less disturbed and more refreshing, the strength improves, and, if the sexual organs had become wasted in size, weak in function, and flaccid and soft, they begin, by and by, to have more tone and firmness, and to develope and increase in size, as their nutrition is restored, by the checking of the exhausting drain which they have sustained.

It is as if, he says, nature develops habitsmorphic units with morphic fields, which he also calls holonsand once these holons are developed or become set as habits of nature, then nature simply keeps reusing them in succeeding stagesanother version of compound individuality.

I would like to emphasize is that the higher stages of transpersonal development are stages that are taken from those who have actually developed into those stages and who display palpable, discernible, and repeatable characteristics of that development.

Platonism of the Renaissance, as developed in the fourteenth century by Ficino and Pico.

Enlightenment developed a conception of nature, including human nature,.

Since he has no developed conception of postconventional society, anything preconventional steps in to announce our salvation.

This gross wind developed from a subtle one which in turn developed from the very subtle wind mounted by the all empty mind of clear light.

While they were alive, the Neanderthals developed more or less in parallel with modern humans.

By this time too, people had developed projectiles such as the bow and arrow that allowed them to attack prey at a distance.

Robin Dunbar attracted a great deal of interest in the mid-1990s with his theory that speech developed from grooming in chimpanzees.

As pottery developed, ochre continued as the favoured colour, though blue-green took over as the colour considered most beneficial to the dead.

Such a procedure seems to have first been developed and practised within the territory of the Hittite confederacy.

It was in Babylonia that music, medicine and mathematics were developed, where the first libraries were created, the first maps drawn, where chemistry, botany and zoology were conceived.