Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To happen.
  • See even.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To happen.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To occur; to happen; to come to pass.

Etymologies

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From Latin ēveniō ("happen, fall out, come out"), from ē ("out of, from"), short form of ex, + veniō ("come").

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Examples

  • And in the moste highe place of Paradys, evene in the myddel place, is a welle, that castethe out the 4 flodes, that rennen be dyverse londes: of the whiche, the first is clept Phison or Ganges, that is alle on: and it rennethe thorghe out Ynde or

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And in the moste highe place of Paradys, evene in the myddel place, is a welle, that castethe out the 4 flodes, that rennen be dyverse londes: of the whiche, the first is clept Phison or Ganges, that is alle on: and it rennethe thorghe out Ynde or

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Mather gets over the difficulty thus: "And yet God may sometimes suffer such things to evene, that we may know, thereby, how much we are beholden to him, for that restraint which he lays upon the infernal spirits, who would else reduce a world into a chaos."

    Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply Charles Wentworth Upham 1838

  • I find it very interesting, that during all this time it seems so not evene one of the Greek people has seriously thought about their position. o.

    The Guardian World News Graeme Wearden 2011

  • I find it very interesting, that during all this time it seems so not evene one of the Greek people has seriously thought about their position. o.

    The Guardian World News Graeme Wearden 2011

  • My favorite examples are the oil exploration companies that are closing up shop in the Gulf - instead of agreeing to evene a minimal amount of sensible and prudent regulation, they went insane.

    MetaFilter 2010

  • And Blake, of course, well, poor Blake, would not evene have had a book at all on Amazon as his were all hand made productions for the most part.

    LISNews - Comments 2009

  • And Blake, of course, well, poor Blake, would not evene have had a book at all on Amazon as his were all hand made productions for the most part.

    LISNews - Comments 2009

  • It bad news for OBAMA that evene PRO OBAMA Newsweek and MSNBC starting to talk about this

    Newsvine - Get Smarter Here Howard Fineman, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com 2009

  • I'm a little hesitant to evene write this but many sources are saying that the announcement about a two-season pickup for FNL is coming any day now.

    Give Me My Remote 2009

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