Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: EV-ER-RE-CUR'RING – E-VIC'TION
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Always recurring.
EV-ER-REST'LESS, a.
Always restless.
EV-ER-RE-VER'ED, a.
Always revered.
E-VERSE, v.t. [evers'; L. eversus.]
To overthrow or subvert. [Not used.] Glanville.
E-VER'SION, n. [L. eversio.]
An overthrowing; destruction. Taylor. Eversion of the eye-lids, ectropium, a disease in which the eye-lids are turned outward, so as to expose the red internal tunic. Good.
EV-ER-SMIL'ING, a.
Always smiling.
E-VERT', v.t. [L. everto; e and verto, to turn.]
To overturn; to overthrow; to destroy. [Little used.] Ayliffe.
E-VERT'ED, pp.
Overturned.
E-VERT'ING, ppr.
Overthrowing.
EV-ER-VERD'ANT, a.
Always green. Verplanck.
EV-ER-WAK'ING, a. [ever and waking.]
Always awake.
EV-ER-WAST'ING, a.
Always wasting.
EV-ER-WATCH'FUL, a. [ever and watchful.]
Always watching or vigilant; as, ever watchful eyes. Pope.
EV'ER-Y, a. [Old Eng. everich. Chaucer. It is formed from ever. The Scots write everich and everilk; the latter is the Sax. æfre, and ælc, each. The former may be eac, eaca, addition, or the common termination ich, ig, like.]
Each individual of a whole collection or aggregate number. The word includes the whole number, but each separately stated or considered. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix.
EV'ER-Y-DAY, a. [every and day.]
Used or being everyday; common; usual; as, everyday wit; an everyday suit of clothes.
EV-ER-YOUNG', a. [ever and young.]
Always young or fresh; not subject to old age or decay; undecaying. Joys everyoung, unmixed with pain or fear. Pope.
EV'ER-Y-WHERE, adv. [See Where, which signifies place.]
In every place; in all places.
E'VES-DROP, v. [See EAVES-DROP, the usual spelling.]
E'VES-DROP-PER, n.
One who stands under the eaves or at a window or door, to listen privately to what is said in the house. [See Eaves-dropper.]
E-VES'TI-GATE, v.t. [Not in use.]
See Investigate.
E-VI'BRATE, v.i. [Not in use.]
See Vibrate.
E-VICT', v.t. [L. evinco, evictum; e and vinco, to conquer.]
- To dispossess by a judicial process, or course of proceedings; to recover lands or tenements by law. If either party be evicted for defect of the other's title. Blackstone.
- To take away by sentence of law. King Charles.
- To evince; to prove. [Not used.] Cheyne.
E-VICT'ED, pp.
Dispossessed by sentence of law; applied to persons. Recovered by legal process; applied to things.
E-VICT'ING, ppr.
Dispossessing by course of law.
E-VIC'TION, n.
- Dispossession by judicial sentence; the recovery of lands or tenements from another's possession, by due course of law.
- Proof; conclusive evidence. L'Estrange.