revolute

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, perfect passive participle of.

Adjective

 * 1) Rolled or recurved on itself.
 * 2)  Having the edges rolled with the abaxial side outward.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: с извит надолу край
 * Irish: aischasta
 * Italian: revoluto

Verb

 * 1) to roll back, curve upwards

Etymology 2
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Verb

 * 1) to participate in or incite a revolution or revolt
 * 2) * 1893, Daily Evening Expositor, editorial, January 28
 * The Hawaiians have ‘revoluted’ and dethroned the fat squaw they have hitherto chosen to call a queen.
 * 1) * 1996, Lester D. Langley, The Banana Men: American Mercenaries and Entrepreneurs in Central America, 1880-1930
 * Christmas always thought himself a “patriotic American,” but, as he saw the matter, a little “revoluting” on behalf of his benefactors—Manuel Bonilla and Estrada Cabrera—in no sense harmed the interestes of the United States.
 * 1) * 2000, Barbara Bush, Imperialism, Race and Resistance: Africa and Britain 1919-1945
 * Achimota was Fraser’s life’s work, evidence that ‘the glorious West African people’ were gradually changing their conditions by ‘evolving not revoluting [sic]’.
 * 1) * 2003, Ed McClanahan, Famous People I Have Known
 * I rocked and rolled. I ingested illicit substances. I revoluted.
 * 1) * 2004, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Unspeakable Perk
 * “Pins through scarabs,” she laughed, “while beneath you Caracuna riots and revolutes and massacres foreigners.