evanid

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“
(as we call it) of this delicate and evanid flower, which I leave to the chymist and the ladies who are worthy the secrets.

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  1. Vanishing; evanescent. I put as great difference between our new lights and ancient truths as between the sun and an … evanid meteor. Glanville, Vanity of Dogmatizing, xix. When they awake out of their fancifull visions and return to a strength and consistency of reason, they then discerne them to have been only evanid appearances represented (as all dreams are) upon the scene of imagination. Bp. Parker, Platonick Philos., p. 88.

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  1. from Latin evanidus, passing away, faint, frail, from evanescere, pass away: see evanesce.
 

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