evangelize 
geliser = Pr. Sp. Pg. evangelizar = It. evange- 
lizzare, < LL. evangelizare, prop, euangelizare, < 
Gr. EuayyeJUfeoftM, preach the gospel, in classi- 
cal Gr. bring or announce good news, < evd-yye- 
Aof, bringing good news: see evangel.] I. in- 
trans. To preach the gospel. 
Thus diil our heavenly Instructor . . . fulfil the predic- 
tions of the prophets, and his own declarations, that he 
would evangelize to the poor. 
Bp. Porteous, Works, II. xil. 
At that time [1786] the evangelizing energy of Christen- 
dom had almost died out. Quarterly Rev., CLXIII. 118. 
II. trans. If. To bring as good tidings ; an- 
nounce as good news. 
And I am sent to thee to speke and to evangelise to 
thee these thingis. Wyclif, Luke i. 19. 
2. To instruct in the gospel ; preach the gospel 
to ; convert by preaching : as, to evangelize the 
heathen. 
The Spirit, 
Pour'd tirst on his apostles, whom he sends 
To evangelize the nations. Milton, P. L., xii. 499. 
The apostolic benediction of the Roman pontiff followed 
families which exiled themselves to evangelize Infidels. 
Bancroft, Hist. U. S., I. 19. 
Also spelled evangelise. 
evangelizer (e-van'jel-i-zer), n. One who evan- 
gelizes or proclaims the gospel. Also spelled 
"ser. 
Now, the Essenes, if Christians, stood precisely in that 
situation of evangelizers, De Quincey, Essenes, ill. 
evangelyt (e-van'jel-i), . [< ME. evangelic; a 
var. of evangel, q. v.] The gospel ; good tid- 
ings : same as evangel. 
For thees aren wordes wryten in the euangelye, 
Date et dabitur uobis. Piers Plowman (C), ii. 196. 
Faithfullie I shall knowlege and shall doo you seruice 
due vnto you of the kingdonie of Scotland aforesaid, as 
God me so helpe, and these holie euangelies. 
Holinshed, Descrip. of Britain, xxii. 
Good Lucius 
That first received Christianity, 
The sacred pledge of Christes Evangel!/. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. x. 53. 
evangilet (e-van'jil), n. An obsolete form of 
evangel. 
Evariia (e-va'ni-a), n. [NL., < Gr. evaviof, tak- 
ing trouble easily, < cv, well, + avid, trouble.] 
The typical genus of the family Evaniidce. E. 
appendigaster is a parasite of the cockroach. 
Evaniadae (ev-a-ni'a-de), n. pi. [NL.] Same 
as JSvaniidce. 
evanidt (e-van'id), a. [< L. evanidus, passing 
away, faint, frail, < evanescere, pass away: see 
evanesce."] Vanishing; evanescent. 
I put as great difference between our new lights and 
ancient truths as between the sun and an ... evanid 
meteor. Glauville, Vanity of Dogmatizing, xix. 
When they awake out of their fancifull visions and re- 
turn to a strength and consistency of reason, they then 
discerne them to have been only evanid appearances repre- 
sented (as all dreams are) upon the scene of imagination. 
Bp. Parker, Platonick Philos., p. 88. 
Evaniidss (ev-a-m'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Eva- 
nia + -id<e.] A family of parasitic hymenop- 
terous insects, related to the lehneumonidce, 
founded by Westwood in 1840, characterized by 
the filiform or bristly antennae with from 13 to 
Evania Itevigata. 
a, dorsal view; b, lateral view, showing point of attachment of peliole 
to abdomen. (Cross shows natural size.) 
16 joints, pedunculate abdomen, straight and 
often prominent ovipositor, the front wings 
with a distinct radial cell and from one to 
three cubital cells, and the hind wings almost 
veinless. All the species are parasitic. Also 
Evaniadat, Evaniades, Evanidw, Evaniites. 
Evaniocera (e-va-ni-os'e-ra), . [NL., < Gr. 
evavtos, taking trouble easily (see Evania), + 
Ktpaf , horn.] A genus of heteromerous beetles, 
of the family lihipipnorida;, having a few wide- 
ly distributed species, as the common Euro- 
pean E. dufouri. 
evanish (e-van'ish), r. i. [< OF. evaniss-, es- 
vaniss-, stem of certain parts of evanir, esvanir, 
evanish, after L. rrantucere, vanish: see eva- 
2036 
wesceand vanish.] To vanish. [Chiefly poeti- 
cal.] 
No more the ghost to Margaret said, 
But, with a grievous groan, 
Evamsh'd in a cloud of mist, 
And left her all alone. 
Sweet William's Ghost (Child's Ballads, II. 148). 
Or like the rainbow's lovely form 
Evanishing amid the storm. 
Burns, Tarn o' Shanter. 
evanishment (e-van'ish-ment), n. [< evanish 
+ -ment.] A vanishing; disappearance. 
Their evanwhment has taken place quietly. 
Daily Telegraph (London), Sept. 22, 1882. 
evanition (ev-a-nish'on), n. [< OF. evanition, 
esvanition,<. evanir, evanish: see evanish.] Evan- 
ishment. Carlyle. 
evansite (ev'anz-!t), n. [Named after Brooke 
Evans of England.] A hydrous phosphate of 
aluminium, occurring in reniform masses on 
limonite. 
evaport (f-va'por), v. t. or i. [< F. evaporer = 
Pr. evaporar, esvaporar = Sp. Pg. evaporar = 
It. evaporare, < L. evaporare, disperse in vapors, 
< e, out, + vaporare, emit vapor, < vapor, vapor: 
see vapor.] To evaporate. 
jEtna here thunders with an horrid noise ; 
Sometimes blacke clouds euaporeth to skies. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 243. 
evaporable (e-vap'o-ra-bl), a. [< evapor + 
-able.] Capable of ' being dissipated by evap- 
oration. 
The substances which emit these streams . . . must be 
in likelihood a far more evaporable and dissipable kind of 
bodies than minerals or adust vegetables. 
Boyle, Works, III. 675. 
evaporate (e-vap'o-rat), v. ; pret. and pp. evap- 
orated, ppr. evaporating. [< LL. evaporatus, 
pp. of evaporare, disperse in vapor : see vapor.] 
1. intrans. 1. To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; 
escape and be dissipated in vapor, either vis- 
ible or invisible ; exhale. 
As for rosin and gum, they are mingled with the rest, 
to incorporate the drugs and spices, and to keepe in the 
sweet odour thereof, which otherwise would evaporate 
and soone be lost. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xiii. 1. 
2. Figuratively, to escape or pass off without 
effect; be dissipated; be wasted: as, anger 
that evaporates in words; the spirit of a writer 
often evaporates in a translation. 
Thus ancient wit in modern numbers taught, 
Wanting the warmth with which its author wrote, 
Is a dead image, and a senseless draught. 
While we transfuse, the nimble spirit flies, 
Escapes unseen, evaporates, and dies. 
Granville, To Dryden, on his Translations. 
II. trans. 1. To convert or resolve into vapor; 
dissipate in fumes or steam ; convert from a 
solid or liquid state into a gaseous state ; va- 
porize: as, heat evaporates water. 2. Figura- 
tively, to waste ; dissipate. 
All Enthusiastick unintelligible Talk, which tends to 
confound Men's Notions of Religion, and to evaporate the 
true Spirit of it into Fansies. Stillingfleet, Sermons, II. x. 
Whatever airs I give myself on this side of the water, 
my dignity, I fancy, would be evaporated before I reached 
the other. Goldsmith, To Daniel Hodson. 
He from whose bosom all original infusion of American 
spirit has become so entirely evaporated and exhaled. 
D. Webster, Speech, Senate, May 7, 1834. 
evaporate (e-vap'6-rat), a. [< L. evaporatus, 
pp.: see the verb.] Dispersed in vapors. [Rare.] 
How still the breeze ! save what the filmy threads 
Of dew evaporate brushes from the plain. 
Thomson, Autumn, 1. 1212. 
evaporating-cone (e-vap'o-ra-ting-kon), . An 
evaporator for saccharine solutions, in the form 
of a hollow cone with double walls, the space 
between which is filled with steam. Over the in- 
ner and the outer surfaces of the cone the solution to be 
evaporated is caused to run in a thin film, thus becoming 
heated. E. II. Kniflht. 
evaporating-dish (e-vap'o-ra-ting-dish), . A 
shallow dish of glass or porcelain used in phar- 
macy in processes requiring evaporation. 
The vessels used in the preparation of pyroxyline may be 
large porcelain or glass evaporatino-dishes. 
Silver Sunbeam, p. 53. 
evaporating-pan (e-vap'o-ra-ting-pan), n. In 
sugar-many/., a large iron vessel in which the 
juice of the sugar-cane is evaporated. 
evaporation (e-vap-o-ra'shpn), n. [= F. eva- 
poration = Pr. evaporacio = Sp. evaporacion = 
Pg. evaporaqUo = It.eyaporazione, < L. evapora- 
tio(n-), < evaporare, disperse in vapor : see va- 
por, evaporate.] 1. The act of resolving or the 
state of being resolved into vapor; the conver- 
sion of a solid or liquid by heat into vapor, 
fumes, or steam; vaporization. The process of 
evaporation is constantly going on at the surface of the 
earth, but principally at the surface of the sea and other 
evasion 
bodies of water. The vapor thus formed, being specifi- 
cally lighter than atmospheric air, rises to considerable 
heights above the earth's surface, and afterward, by a par- 
tial condensation, forms clouds, and finally descends in 
rain. The effect of evaporation is to reduce the tempera- 
ture of the evaporating surface, and the evaporation of 
certain volatile liquids, such as ether, produces an in- 
tense degree of cold. Evaporation by direct heat (boil- 
ing down) is often practised on fluids, especially in phar- 
macy and cookery, in order to reduce them to a denser 
consistence, or to obtain in a dry and separate state the 
fixed matters contained in them. 
So in pestilent fevers, the intention is to expel the infec- 
tion by sweat and evaporation. Bacon, Nat. Hist., 968. 
In the seven last months of the year 1688, the evapora- 
tion amounted to 22 inches 6 lines ; but the rain only to 
11 inches 6} lines. Derhain, Physico-Theology, i. 5, note 7. 
2. The matter evaporated or exhaled ; vapor. 
[Bare.] 
They are but the fruits of adusted choler, and the evapo- 
rations of a vindictive spirit. Howell, Dodona's Grove. 
Evaporations are . 
heat of the sun. 
. greater according to the greater 
Woodward. 
3. In alg., the disappearance of a solution of a 
system of equations by passing off to infinity. 
Thus, the solution of the two equations x ky=a and * 
y = b, which disappears when * = 1, is said to pass off by 
evaporation. 
evaporation-gage (e-vap-o-ra'shon-gaj), . A 
graduated vessel of glass for determining the 
rate of evaporation of a liquid placed in it, in 
a given time and exposure. 
evaporative (e-vap'o-ra-tiv), . [= F. evapo- 
rahf = Pr. evaporatiu = Sp. Pg. It. evaporativo, 
< LL. evaporations, apt to evaporate, < evapo- 
rare, evaporate : see evapor, evaporate.] Caus- 
ing evaporation ; pertaining to evaporation : 
as, an evaporative process. 
evaporator (e-vap'o-ra-tor), . [< evaporate + 
-or*.] Any apparatus used to facilitate the 
evaporation of the water contained in fruit, 
vegetable juices, saline liquids, glue, syrups, 
etc. ; a furnace or pan used in condensing ve- 
getable and other juices. 
Those who have fruit evaporators for sale give extrava- 
gant statements about the increased value of evaporated 
over sun-dried fruit. 
New York Semi-weekly Tribune, July 22, 1887. 
evaporimeter (e-vap-o-rim'e-ter), n. Same as 
evaporometer. 
evaporometer ( e-vap-o-rom'e -ter), . [Irreg. 
< LL. eraporare, evaporate, + Gr. fterpov, a 
measure.] An instrument for ascertaining the 
quantity of a liquid evaporated in a given time ; 
an atmometer. 
Evarthrus (e-var'thrus), n. [NL., < Gr. ev, 
well, + a/rfpov, a joint.] A genus of geadeph- 
agous ground-beetles, of 
the family Carabidce and 
tribe Pterostichini, closely 
allied to Pterostichus, from 
which it differs in the form 
of the maxillary palpi, the 
last joint being shorter 
than the penultimate one, 
which is plurisetose near 
the tip. The species are all 
North American. They are 
elongate, subconvex, shining or 
opaque, the elytra striate-punc- 
tate, with one dorsal puncture 
near the third stria. E.orbatus 
(Newman) occurs in the eastern Evarthrus o 
United States under stones and (Line shows natural size.) 
logs in dry places. 
6vas6 (a-va-za'), a. [F., pp. of leaser, widen, 
cause to flare, as a vase, < e- (< L. ex-, out) + 
vase, vase: seemse.] Spreading or flaring out- 
ward: said of the neck of a bottle, vase, or sim- 
ilar vessel, of the capital of a column, etc. 
evasible (e-va'si-bl), o. [< L. evasus, pp. of eva- 
dere, evade, + -4Me.] Capable of being evaded. 
Eclectic Rev. [Rare.] 
evasion (e-va'zhon), n. [= F. evasion = Sp. 
evasion = Pg. evasao = It. evasione, < LL. eva- 
sio(n-), < L. evasus, pp. of evadere, evade: see 
evade.] 1. The act of evading or eluding; a 
getting away or out of the way; avoidance 
by artifice or strategy; artful escape or flight. 
[Kare in physical application.] 
How may I avoid, 
Although my will distaste what it elected, 
The wife I chose? there can be no evasion 
To blench from this, and to stand firm by honour. 
Shak., T. and C., ii. 2. 
If your present objection ... be meant as an evasion 
of.my offer, I desist. Goldsmith, Vicar, xxx. 
In regard to disagreeable and formidable things, pru- 
dence does not consist in evasion, or in flight, but in cour- 
age. Emerson, Essays, 1st ser., p. 215. 
On Tuesday, the 5th of June, Madame de la Motte . . . 
escaped from the penitentiary of the Salpetriere, where 
she had been sentenced to be immured for life ; and in her 
evasion Marie Antoinette, it was said, had been an influ- 
rntial Muriit. l'nrt>ii : ilillii Hfc.. X. S.. XLII. 289. 
