Emily Dickinson Lexicon

E-VIN'CED, pp.

Made evident; proved.

E-VINCE'MENT, n.

Act of evincing.

E-VIN'CI-BLE, a.

Capable of proof; demonstrable. Hale.

E-VIN'CI-BLY, adv.

In a manner to demonstrate, or force conviction.

E-VIN'CIVE, a.

Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate.

E'VI-RATE, v.t. [L. vir, eviratus.]

To emasculate. [Not in use.] Bp. Hall.

E-VI-RA'TION, n.

Castration. Cockeram.

E-VIS'CER-ATE, v.t. [L. eviscero; e and viscera, the bowels.]

To embowel or disembowel; to take out the entrails; to search the bowels. Johnson. Griffith.

E-VIS'CER-A-TED, pp.

Deprived of the bowels.

E-VIS'CER-A-TING, ppr.

Disemboweling.

EV'ITA-BLE, a. [L. evitabilis. See Evitate.]

That may be shunned; avoidable. [Little used.] Hooker.

EV'I-TATE, v.t. [L. evito; e and vito, from the root of void, wide.]

To shun; to avoid; to escape. [Little used.] Shak.

EV-I-TA'TION, n.

An avoiding; a shunning. [Little used.] Bacon.

E-VITE, v.t. [L. evito.]

To shun. [Not used.] Drayton.

E-VI-TERN'AL, a. [from L.]

Of duration indefinitely long.

E-VI-TERN'I-TY, n.

Duration indefinitely long.

EV'O-CATE, or EVOKE, v.t. [L. evoco; e and voco, to call.]

1. To call forth. Neptune is a deity who evocates things into progression. Paus. Trans.
2. To call from one tribunal to another; to remove. The cause was evoked to Rome. Hume. [Evoke is the preferable word.]

EV-O-CA'TION, n.

1. A calling or bringing from concealment; a calling forth. Brown
2. A calling from one tribunal to another. Among the Romans, a calling on the gods of a besieged city to forsake it and come over to the besiegers; a religious ceremony of besieging armies. Encyc.

EV'O-CA-TOR, n. [L.]

One who calls forth. N. A. Rev.

E-VOK-ED, pp.

Called forth.

E-VOK-ING, ppr.

Calling forth.

EV-O-LAT'IC, a.

Apt to fly away.

EV-O-LA'TION, n. [L. evolo; e and volo, to fly.]

The act of flying away. Bp. Hall.

EV-O-LUTE, n.

An original curve from which another curve is described; the origin of the evolvent. Ash.

EV-O-LU'TION, n. [L. evolutio.]

1. The act of unfolding or unrolling. Boyle.
2. A series of things unrolled or unfolded; as, the evolution of ages. Moore.
3. In geometry, the unfolding or opening of a curve, and making a describe an evolvent. The equable evolution of the periphery of a circle, or other curve, is such a gradual approach of the circumference to rectitude; as that its part do all concur, and equally evolve or unbend; so that the same line becomes successively a less arc of a reciprocally greater circle, till at last they change into a straight line. Harris.
4. In algebra, evolution is the extraction of roots from powers; the reverse of involution. Harris. Encyc.
5. In military tactics, the doubling of ranks or files, wheeling, countermarching, or other motion by which the disposition of troops is changed, in order to attack or defend with more advantage, or to occupy a different post. Encyc.