Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Vanishing; evanescent.
Wiktionary
- adj. obsolete Liable to vanish; faint; weak; evanescent.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Liable to vanish or disappear; faint; weak; evanescent.
Etymologies
- Latin evanidus, from evanescere. See evanesce. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“God will bear no longer with pretences; no outward appearances or evanid affections, in a temporary humiliation for a day, though in the observation of the most solemn duties required on such a day, will answer the mind of God herein.”
“And although these things in some are subordinated unto a farther and more effectual work of the Spirit of God upon them, yet with many they prove evanid and fading, their goodness in them being "as a morning cloud, and as the early dew which passeth away," Hos. vi.”
“And hereof evanid satisfaction, temporary resolutions for a kind of compliance with the things spoken, with, it may be, some few perishing endeavours after some change of life, are the best effects of all such discourses.”
“(as we call it) of this delicate and evanid flower, which I leave to the chymist and the ladies who are worthy the secrets.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘evanid’.
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1755
Interesting words appearing in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755). Some are interesting for their unfamiliarity, and some for the meanings then assigned by Johnson.
absonous, adumbrate, agrammatist, alderlievest, ambages, ana, anfrantuous, aperitive, assapanick, babery, bellytimber, blatant and 103 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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exploring the -id
These are wonderful adjectives, but sometimes I mix them up.
vapid, insipid, torrid, arid, torpid, turgid, tepid, lucid, pellucid, gelid, horrid, viscid and 50 more...
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the_maori adj. Evanescent; fleeting; transient Sep 27, 2012