Some of serpent kind . . . involved Their snaky folds.
Milton.
2. To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in
darkness or obscurity.
And leave a singèd bottom all involved With stench and smoke.
Milton.
3. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
"Involved discourses." Locke.
4. To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or
effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
He knows His end with mine involved.
Milton.
The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.
Tillotson.
5. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
[R.]
The gathering number, as it moves along, Involves a vast
involuntary throng.
Pope.
Earth with hell To mingle and involve.
Milton.
6. To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person
in debt or misery.
7. To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb. "Involved in a
deep study." Sir W. Scott.
8. (Math.) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity,
into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the
third or fourth power.
Syn. -- To imply; include; implicate; complicate; entangle; embarrass;
overwhelm. -- To Involve, Imply. Imply is opposed to express, or set
forth; thus, an implied engagement is one fairly to be understood from
the words used or the circumstances of the case, though not set forth
in form. Involve goes beyond the mere interpretation of things into
their necessary relations; and hence, if one thing involves another, it
so contains it that the two must go together by an indissoluble
connection. War, for example, involves wide spread misery and death;
the premises of a syllogism involve the conclusion.
In*volved" (?), a. (Zoöl.) Same as Involute.
In*volv"ed*ness (?), n. The state of being involved.
In*volve"ment (?), n. The act of involving, or the state of being
involved. Lew Wallace.
In*vul"gar (?), v. t. [Pref. in- in + vulgar.] To cause to become or
appear vulgar. [Obs.] Daniel.
In*vul"gar, a. [Pref. in- not + vulgar.] Not vulgar; refined; elegant.
[Obs.] Drayton.
In*vul"ner*a*bil`i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. invulnérabilité.] Quality or
state of being invulnerable.
In*vul"ner*a*ble (?), a. [L. invulnerabilis: cf. F. invulnérable. See
In- not, and Vulnerable.]