Euxine 
Euxine (uk'sin), . [< L. Euxinus (sc. pontus) 
or Eitxinum (sc. mare), < GT. Eife/voc, Ionic form 
of Eyferaf (sc. Tron-of), lit. the hospitable sea, 
a change, perhaps euphemistic, from the ear- 
lier name "Afevof, i. e., inhospitable, so called 
with ref. to the savage tribes surrounding it; 
<et>, well (or a- priv.), + fevof, a stranger, guest.] 
The ancient name of the sea between Russia 
and Asia Minor, still often used ; the Black Sea. 
evacatet (e-va'kat), v. i. [< L. e, out, + vaca- 
tits, pp. of ' vacare, be empty: see vacate.'] To 
evacuate; discharge. 
Dry air opens the surface of the earth to disincarcerate 
venene bodies, or to evacate them. 
Harvey, On the Plague. 
evacuant (e-vak'u-ant), a. and n. [< L. eva- 
cuan(t-)s, ppr. of evacuare: see evacuate.] I. 
a. In ined., emptying; provoking evacuation 
or the act of voiding ; purgative. 
II. n. 1. A medicine which procures evacu- 
ations, or promotes the normal secretions and 
excretions. 
In some cases the influence of an evacuant over a se- 
creting organ may be remote. 
Pereira, Materia Medica, p. 234. 
2. In organ-building, a valve to let out the air 
from the bellows. 
evacuate (e-vak'u-at), v.; pret. and pp. evacu- 
ated, ppr. evacuating. [< L. evacuatus, pp. of 
evacuare (> It. evacuare = Pg. Sp. Pr. evacuar = 
F. evacuer), empty out, discharge, < e, out, + va- 
cuare, make empty, < vacuus, empty: see vacu- 
ous.'} I. trans. 1. To make empty; cause to 
be emptied ; free from anything contained : as, 
to evacuate a vessel ; to evacuate the stomach 
by an emetic. [Now rare except in medical use.] 
There is no good way of prevention but by evacuating 
clean, and emptying the church. Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
Hence 2. To leave empty ; vacate ; depart 
from ; quit : as, the enemy evacuated the place. 
They understood that Prince Rupert and others of the 
King's party were marched out of the town in pursuance 
of them, and that the garrison would be entirely evacu- 
ated before they could signify their pleasure to the army. 
Ludlow, Memoirs, I. 14. 
The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country. 
Burke, Abridg. of Eng. Hist., ii. 6. 
3. To make void or empty of something essen- 
tial; deprive; strip. [Rare.] 
Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important mean- 
ing. Coleridge. 
Mr. Marsh, in passing sentence on "in respect of, "takes 
his stand on an idea of grammar which evacuates the by- 
gone usage of our ancestors of all authority to determine 
what it was right that they should say. 
F. Hall, Mod. Eng., p. 86. 
4f. To make void; nullify; make of no effect; 
vacate : as, to evacuate a marriage or a contract. 
Lest the cross of Christ should be evacuated and made 
of none effect, he came to make this fulness perfect by in- 
stituting and establishing a church. Donne, Sermons, i. 
General councils may become invalid, either by their 
own fault, or by some extrinsical supervening accident, 
either of which evacuates their authority. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 345. 
He that pretends a disability . . . evacuates the precept. 
South. 
6. To void ; discharge ; eject : as, to evacuate 
excrementitious matter. 
The white [hellebore] dote evacuat the offencive humours 
which cause diseases. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxv. 4. 
Il.t intrans. To produce an evacuation, as 
by letting blood. 
If the malady continue, it is not amiss to evacuate in a 
part in the forehead. Burton, Anat. of Mel. 
evacuation (e-vak-u-a'shi-6), n. [LL.: see evac- 
uation,] In medieval music, the writing of full- 
faced notes in outline only, by which their value 
was reduced one half. 
evacuation (e-vak-u-a'shqn), n. [= F. evacua- 
tion = Pr. evacuacio = Sp. evacuation = Pg. 
evacuacao = It. evacuazione, < LL. evacuatio(n-), 
< L. evacuare, make empty, evacuate : see evac- 
uate. ] 1 . The act of evacuating or exhausting ; 
the act of emptying or clearing of contents; 
clearance by removal or withdrawal, as of an 
army or garrison: as, the evacuation of the bow- 
els ; the evacuation of a theater, or of a besieged 
town. 
A country so exhausted . . . was rather an object that 
stood in need of every kind of refreshment and recruit 
than one which could subsist under new evacuations. 
Burke, Affairs of India. 
2. A diminution of the fluids of an animal body 
by cathartics, venesection, or other means ; de- 
pletion. 
Where the humour is strong and predominant, there 
the prescription must be rugged, and the evacuation vio- 
'ent. South, Works, IX. v. 
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3f. Abolition. 
Popery hath not been able to re-establish itself in any 
-3t it by utter evacuation 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
place, after provision made against it by utter evacuation 
of all Romish ceremonies. 
4. That which is evacuated or discharged ; es- 
pecially, a discharge by stool or other natural 
means: as, dark-colored evacuations Evacua- 
tion day, the day on which the British troops evacuated 
the city of New York after the treaty of peace and inde- 
pendence, November 26th, 1783, which has since been an- 
nually celebrated there. 
evacuative (e-vak'u-a-tiv), . [= F. evacuatif 
= Pr. evacuatiu = Sp. Pg. It. evacnativo; as 
evacuate + -ive.] Serving or tending to evac- 
uate ; cathartic ; purgative. 
evacuator (e-vak u-a-tor), n. [< evacuate + 
-or.] One who or that which evacuates, emp- 
ties, or makes void. 
Take heed, be not too busy in imitating any father in a 
dangerous expression, or in excusing the great evacuatortt 
of the law. Hammond, Works, I. 175. 
evacuatoryt (e-vak'u-a-to-ri), n. ; pi. evacua- 
tories (-riz). [< evacuate + -ory.] A purge. 
Davies. 
An imposthume calls for a lance, and oppletion for un- 
palatable evacuatorie*. Gentleman Instructed, p. 309. 
evacuityt (e-va-ku'i-ti), n. [Improp. for va- 
cuity, with prefix taken from evacuate.] A va- 
cancy. 
Fit it was, therefore, so many evacuities should be filled 
up, to mount the meeting to a competent number. 
Fuller, Ch. Hist., XI. ix. 7. 
evadable, evadible (e-va'da-bl, -di-bl), a. [< 
evade + -able, -Me.] Capable of being evaded. 
De Quincey ; Coleridge. 
evade (e-vad'), v. ; pret. and pp. evaded, ppr. 
evading. [= F. Evader = Sp. Pg. evadir = It. 
evadere, < L. evadere, tr. pass over or beyond, 
leave behind, escape from, intr. go out, go 
away, < e, out, + vadere, go : see wade. Cf. in- 
vade, pervade."] I. trans. 1. To avoid by effort 
or contrivance; escape from or elude in any 
way, as by dexterity, artifice, stratagem, or 
address ; slip away from ; get out of the way 
of: as, to evade a blow; to evade pursuers. 
In this point charge him home, that he affects 
Tyrannical power : If he evade us there, 
Enforce him with his envy to the people. 
Shak., Cor., iii. 3. 
Where shall the line be drawn between free Greece and 
free Bulgaria? It must surely be the frightful difficulty of 
this Question . . . which makes diplomatists so anxious 
to evade it by leaving an enslaved land between the two. 
E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 226. 
He seemed always to pursue an enticing shadow, which 
always just evaded his grasp. 
C. D. Warner, Roundabout Journey, p. 9. 
2. To escape the reach or comprehension of ; 
baffle or foil : as, a mystery that evades inquiry. 
We have seen how a contingent event baffles man's 
knowledge and evades his powers. South. 
II. intrans. If. To escape ; slip away : with 
from. 
His wisdom, by often evading from perils, was turned 
rather into a dexterity to deliver himself from dangers, 
than into a providence to prevent. Bacon, Hist. Hen. VII. 
2. To practise evasion ; use elusive methods. 
The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge 
in any of these two forementioned ways. South, Sermons. 
He [Charles I.] hesitates ; heeoodes; at last he bargains 
to give his assent for five subsidies. Macaulay. 
evadible, a. See evadable. 
evagation (e-va-ga'shon), n. [= F. evagation 
= Sp. evagacion = It. evagazione, < L. evaga- 
tio(n-), a wandering, straying, < evagari, wander 
forth, < e, out, + vagari, wander: see vagrant.] 
The act of wandering ; excursion ; a roving or 
rambling. [Rare.] 
These long chains of lofty mountains, which run through 
whole continents east and west, serve to stop the evaga- 
tion of the vapours to the north and south in hot coun- 
tries. Ray. 
evaginable (e-vaj'i-na-bl), a. [< evagin(ate) 
+ -able.] Capable of being evaginated or un- 
sheathed; protrusible. 
evaginate (e-vaj'i-nat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. eva- 
ginated, ppr. evaginating. [< LL. evaginatus, pp. 
of evaginare, unsheathe, < L. e, out, + vagina, a 
sheath: see vagina.] To unsheathe ; withdraw 
from a sheath: opposed to invaginate. 
evagination (e-vaj-i-na'shon), n. [< LL. eva- 
ginatin(n-), a spreading out, lit. unsheathing, < 
evaginare, unsheathe: see evaginate.] 1. The 
act of unsheathing. Craig. [Rare.] 2. In 
zodl. : (a) The act or process of evaginating, 
unsheathing, or withdrawing ; hence, a protru- 
sion of some part or organ. (6) That which 
is protruded, unsheathed, or evaginated: said 
of any protrusible part or organ. 
evanescently 
The eye [of chelonians] occurs as a hollow vertical eva- 
gination from the upper surface of the pineal outgrowth, 
and leaves the stalk of the latter at the beginning of its 
distal fourth, measuring from its rear end. 
Amer. Naturalist, XXI. 1126. 
evalt (e'val), a. [< L. anium, an age (see age, 
etern), + '^al. Cf. coeval.] Relating to an age. 
Every one at all skilled in the Greek language knows that 
aio>c, age, and otujfto?, eval, improperly everlasting, do not 
convey the ideas of a proper eternity. 
Letter to Abp. of Canterbury (1791), p. 67. 
evaluate (e-val'u-at), v. t. ; pret. and pp. eval- 
uated, ppr. 'evaluating. [< F. evaluer, value, es- 
timate (< e- + value, value : see value), + -ate 2 .] 
To determine or ascertain the value of; ap- 
praise carefully; specifically , in math., to ascer- 
tain the numerical value of. 
To evaluate the effect produced under the second hy- 
pothesis, ... it is necessary to employ mathematical 
analysis of a high order. 
Amer. Jour. Set., 3d ser., XXXI. 297. 
The evidence is of a kind which it is peculiarly difficult 
either to disentangle or evaluate. 
Rep. Cmnm. Sac. Psych. Research, 1884, p. 24. 
evaluation (e-val-u-a'shon), n. [< F. evalua- 
tion (> late ML. evaluatio'j, < evaluer, value : see 
evaluate.] Careful valuation or appraisement; 
specifically, in math., the ascertainment of the 
numerical value of any expression : as, the eval- 
uation of a definite integral, of a probability, 
of an expectation, etc. 
Before applying the doctrine of chances to any scientific 
purpose, the foundation must be laid for an evaluation of 
the chances, by possessing ourselves of the utmost attain- 
able amount of positive knowledge. 
J. S. Mill, Logic, III. xviii. 3. 
evalvular (e-val'vu-lar), a. [< L. c-priv. -t- NL. 
valvula, dim. of L. valva, valve : see valvular.] 
In bot., without valves ; not opening by valves. 
evanesce (ev-a-nes'), " *; pret. and pp. eva- 
nesced, ppr. evanescing. [< L. evanescere, vanish 
away, < e, out, + vanescere, vanish : see vanish. 
Cf. evanish.] 1 . To vanish away or by degrees ; 
disappear gradually ; fade out or away ; be dis- 
sipated : as, evanescing colors or vapors. 
I believe him to have evanesced or evaporated. 
De Quincey, Confessions, p. 79. 
Platitudinous is, unquestionably, very much more ser- 
viceable than any evanescing squib of only one or two 
syllables. F. Hall, Mod. Eng., p. 310. 
2. To disappear, as the edge of a polyhedron, 
by the rotation of two adjacent faces into one 
plane. Eirkman. 
evanescence (ev-a-nes'ens), n. [< evanescent: 
see -ence.] 1. A vanishing away ; gradual de- 
parture or disappearance ; dissipation, as of va- 
por. 
The sudden evanescence of his reward. 
Johnson, Rambler, No. 163. 
Taking the world as it is, we may well doubt whether 
more would not be lost than gained by the evanescence of 
the standard of honour, whether among boys or men. 
H. N. Oxenham, Short Studies, p. 237. 
2. The quality of being evanescent ; liability 
to vanish and escape observation or posses- 
sion : as, the evanescence of mist or dew ; the 
evanescence of earthly hopes. 
evanescent (ev-a-nes'ent), a. [< L. evanes- 
een(t-)s, ppr. of evanescere, vanish away: see 
evanesce.] 1. Vanishing, or apt to vanish or be 
dissipated, like vapor; passing away; fleeting: 
as, the pleasures and joys of life are evanescent. 
We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is, like opaline 
doves' neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. 
Emerson, Essays, 1st ser., p. 162. 
In 1604 the astronomer Kepler . . . saw, between Jupi- 
ter and Saturn, a new, brilliant, evanescent star. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 169. 
He [Wordsworth] seems to have caught and fixed for- 
ever in immutable grace the most evanescent and intangi- 
ble of our intuitions, the very ripple-marks on the remot- 
est shores of being. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 243. 
2. Lessening or lessened beyond the reach of 
perception; impalpable; imperceptible. 
The difference between right and wrong, in some petty 
cases, is almost evanescent. Wollaston. 
It is difficult to define what is so evanescent, so iinpal 
pable, so chimerical, so unreal. 
Sumner, True Grandeur of Nations. 
3. In not. hist., unstable; unfixed; hence, un- 
certain; unreliable: applied to characters which 
are not fixed or uniformly present, and there- 
fore are valueless for scientific classification. 
4. In en torn., tending to become obsolete in one 
part; fading out: as, antennal scrobes evanes- 
cent posteriorly. 
evanescently (ev-a-nes 'ent-li), adv. In an 
evanescent or vanishing manner. 
So quickly and cvanemnHi/ as tt> pass unnoticed. 
Chalmers, Bridgewater Treatise, II. i. 310. 
