Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-VOLVE', v.t. [involv'; L. involvo; in and volvo, to roll, Eng. to wallow.]

1. To envelop; to cover with surrounding matter; as, to involve in smoke or dust.
2. To envelop in any thing which exists on all sides; as, to involve in darkness or obscurity.
3. To imply; to comprise. To be and not to be at the same time, involves a contradiction.
4. To entwist; to join; to connect. He knows his end with mine involved. Milton.
5. To take in; to catch; to conjoin. The gathering number, as it moves along, / Involves a vast involuntary throng. Pope.
6. To entangle. Let not our enemy involve the nation in war, nor our imprudence involve us in difficulty.
7. To plunge; to overwhelm. Extravagance often involves men in debt and distress.
8. To inwrap; to infold; to complicate or make intricate. Some involved their snaky folds. Milton. Florid, witty, involved discourses. Locke.
9. To blend; to mingle confusedly. Milton.
10. In algebra, to raise a quantity from the root to any assigned power; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.