Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 58

Every (a. & a. pron.) Every one. Cf.

Everybody (n.) Every person.

Everyday (a.) Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes.

Everyone (n.) Everybody; -- commonly separated, every one.

Everything (n.) Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; all things.

Everywhen (adv.) At any or all times; every instant.

Everywhere (adv.) In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.

Everywhereness (n.) Ubiquity; omnipresence.

Evesdrop (v. i.) See Eavesdrop.

Evesdropper (n.) See Eavesdropper.

Evestigate (v. t.) To investigate.

Evet (n.) The common newt or eft. In America often applied to several species of aquatic salamanders.

Evibrate (v. t. & i.) To vibrate.

Evicted (imp. & p. p.) of Evict

Evicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Evict

Evict (v. t.) To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.

Evict (v. t.) To evince; to prove.

Eviction (n.) The act or process of evicting; or state of being evicted; the recovery of lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due course of law; dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title; ejectment; ouster.

Eviction (n.) Conclusive evidence; proof.

Evidence (n.) That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement.

Evidence (n.) One who bears witness.

Evidence (n.) That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; -- the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it.

Evidenced (imp. & p. p.) of Evidence

Evidencing (p, pr. & vb. n.) of Evidence

Evidence (v. t.) To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender.

Evidencer (n.) One whi gives evidence.

Evident (a.) Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident.

Evidential (a.) Relating to, or affording, evidence; indicative; especially, relating to the evidences of Christianity.

Evidentiary (a.) Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential.

Evidently (adv.) In an evident manner; clearly; plainly.

Evidentness (n.) State of being evident.

Evigilation (n.) A waking up or awakening.

Evil (a.) Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.

Evil (a.) Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.

Evil (a.) Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.

Evil (n.) Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.

Evil (n.) Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.

Evil (n.) malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.

Evil (adv.) In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.

Evil eye () See Evil eye under Evil, a.

Evil-eyed (a.) Possessed of the supposed evil eye; also, looking with envy, jealousy, or bad design; malicious.

Evil-favored (a.) Having a bad countenance or appearance; ill-favored; blemished; deformed.

Evilly (adv.) In an evil manner; not well; ill.

Evil-minded (a.) Having evil dispositions or intentions; disposed to mischief or sin; malicious; malignant; wicked.

Evilness (n.) The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.

Evinced (imp. & p. p.) of Evince

Evincing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Evince

Evince (v. t.) To conquer; to subdue.

Evince (v. t.) To show in a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident; to bring to light; to evidence.

Evincement (n.) The act of evincing or proving, or the state of being evinced.

Evincible (a.) Capable of being proved or clearly brought to light; demonstrable.

Evincive (a.) Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.

Evirate (v. t.) To emasculate; to dispossess of manhood.

Eviration (n.) Castration.

Eviscerated (imp. & p. p.) of Eviscerate

Eviscerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eviscerate

Eviscerate (v. t.) To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.

Evisceration (a.) A disemboweling.

Evitable (a.) Avoidable.

Evitate (v. t.) To shun; to avoid.

Evitation (n.) A shunning; avoidance.

Evite (v. t.) To shun.

Eviternal (a.) Eternal; everlasting.

Eviternity (n.) Eternity.

Evocate (v. t.) To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke.

Evocation (n.) The act of calling out or forth.

Evocative (a.) Calling forth; serving to evoke; developing.

Evocator (n.) One who calls forth.

Evoked (imp. & p. p.) of Evoke

Evoking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Evoke

Evoke (v. t.) To call out; to summon forth.

Evoke (v. t.) To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another.

Evolatic (a.) Alt. of Evolatical

Evolatical (a.) Apt to fly away.

Evolation (n.) A flying out or up.

Evolute (n.) A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent.

Evolutility (n.) The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self-nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure.

Evolution (n.) The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.

Evolution (n.) A series of things unrolled or unfolded.

Evolution (n.) The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute.

Evolution (n.) The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution.

Evolution (n.) A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver.

Evolution (n.) A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development.

Evolution (n.) That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis.

Evolution (n.) That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function. The pocess is by some limited to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity. The agencies and laws of the process are variously explained by different philosophrs.

Evolutional (a.) Relating to evolution.

Evolutionary (a.) Relating to evolution; as, evolutionary discussions.

Evolutionism (n.) The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7.

Evolutionist (n.) One skilled in evolutions.

Evolutionist (n.) one who holds the doctrine of evolution, either in biology or in metaphysics.

Evolved (imp. & p. p.) of Evolve

Evolving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Evolve

Evolve (v. t.) To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.

Evolve (v. t.) To throw out; to emit; as, to evolve odors.

Evolve (v. i.) To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution.

Evolvement (n.) The act of evolving, or the state of being evolved; evolution.

Evolvent (n.) The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.

Evomit (v. t.) To vomit.

Evomition (n.) The act of vomiting.

Evulgate (v. t.) To publish abroad.

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