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One woman will eviscerate about two dozen of herrings evocator (ev'6-ka-tor), n. [< L. evocator, < evo- 
a minute. Encyc. Brit., IX. 259. carCj call forth: see evoke.] One who evokes: 
2 Figuratively, to deprive of essential or vital as, the evocator of spirits. Byron. 
parts. evoke (e-vok'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. evoked, ppr. 
The philosophers who, like Dr. Thomas Brown, quietly evoking'. [= F. evoquer = Sp. Pg. evocar = It. 
eviscerate the problem of its sole difficulty. evocare, < L. evocare, call forth, summon, call a 
Sir W. Hamilton, Discussions, p. 586. deity Qut of a Besieged city, < e, out, + vocare, 
3. To unbosom; reveal; disclose. call: see vocation, and cf. avoke, convoke, invoke, 
Now that I have thus eviscerated myself, and dealt so provoke, revoke.] 1. To call or summon forth 
clearly with you, I desire by way of Correspondence that or ou ^ 
you would tell me what Way you take in your Journey 
to Heaven. Howell, Letters, I. vi. 32. 
evisceration (e-vis-e-ra'shon), . [= F. Evis- 
ceration = Sp.' evisceration, < L. eviscerare, pp. 
evisceratus, eviscerate : see eviscerate.] The act 
of eviscerating. 
evitable (ev'i-ta-bl), a. [= F. foitable = Sp. 
evitable = Pg. evitavel = It. evitabile, < L. evita- 
bilis, avoidable, < evitare, avoid: see evite.] Ca- 
pable of being shunned; avoidable. [Rare.] 
Of two such evils, being not both evitable, the choice of 
the less is not evil. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 9. 
The union of Canada to the United States is evitable 
only through the establishment of complete freedom of 
commercial intercourse. The American, VIII. 65. 
It was actually one of the pretended feats of these fan- 
tastick Philosophers to evoke the Queen of the Fairies in 
the solitude of a gloomy grove. 
T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, III. 496. 
He beheld . . . the old magistrate himself, with a lamp 
in his hand . . . and a long white gown enveloping his 
figure. He looked like a ghost, evoked unseasonably from 
the grave. Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, xii. 
A warlike, a refined, an industrial society, each evokes 
and requires its specific qualities, and produces its ap- 
propriate type. Lecky, Hist. Europ. Morals, I. 165. 
2. To call away; remove from one tribunal to 
another. 
The cause was evoked to Rome. Hume. 
r , T ,. cvuiauivi, evolaticalt (ev-o-lat'ik, -i-kal), a. 
evitatet (ev'i-tat), v. t. [< L. emtatus, pp. of r < L> evo 'i are , fly away (after volaticus, flying): 
evitare, avoid: see evite.] To shun; avoid; es- see Dotation.] Apt to fly away. 
CaP<3 ' She doth evitate and shun evolationt (ev-o-la'shon), . [< L. evolatio(n-), 
A thousand irreliltoufcurse^tul's" < ^olare, fly away < e, out away, + volare, 
Which forced marriage would have brought upon her. fly: see volant.] The act Ol flying away. 
Shak., M. W. of W., v. 5. TTr 
evitationt (ev-i-ta'shon), n. 
= Sp. evitation = Pg. evitag 
< L. evitatio(n-), < evitare, avoid: see evite, evi- ~ fs\o^"" Bp.Hall'The Christian, is. 
tate.] An avoiding; a shunning. (ev'6-lut), n. [< L. evolutus, pp. of 
J!t^3^^ 
and honours of the Papacy. a curve which is the locus of the center of cur- 
R. w. Dixon, Hist, church of Eng., xvii. vature of another curve, or the envelop of the 
evitet (e-vif), v.t. [< OF. eviter, F. foiter = Sp. normals to the latter Imperfect evolute, the en- 
Pg. eviiar = It. evitare, < L. evitare, shun, avoid, velop of all the lines cutting a plane curve under any con- 
Upon the wings of this faith is the soul ready to mount 
Pg. . . 
< e, out, + vitare, shun.] To shun ; avoid. 
What we ought t' evite 
As our disease, we hug as our delight. 
Quarles, Emblems, i. 8. 
The blow once given cannot be eviled. Drayton. 
eviternal (ev-i-ter'nal), a. [Formerly also cevi- 
ternal; = OF. eviternel, also, without suffix, 
eviterne, < L. *ceviternus, contr. aiternus, eternal: 
see etern, eternal.] Enduring forever through- 
out all changes ; eternal. 
Angels are truly existing, . . . eviternal creatures. 
Bp. Hall, Mystery of Godliness, 9. 
eviternally (ev-i-ter'nal-i), adv. Eternally. 
The body hangs on the crosse ; the soule is yeelded ; 
the Godhead is eviternally united to them both ; acknow- 
ledges, sustaines them both. 
Bp. Hall, Passion Sermon, an. 1609. 
eviternity (ev-i-ter'ni-ti), . [Formerly also 
(eviternity; = OF. eviternite, < L. *awiternita(t-)s, 
contr. aiternita(t-)s, eternity: see eternity.] Du- 
ration infinitely long; eternity. 
There shall we indissolubly, with all the chore of heav- 
en, passe our eviternity of blisse in lauding and praising 
the incomprehensibly glorious majesty of our Creator. 
Bp. Hall, Invisible World. 
evittate (e-vit'at), a. [< L. e- priv. + vittw, 
bauds (see vitta), + -ate 1 .] In bot., without 
vittse : applied to the fruit of some umbellifers. 
evocable (ev'o-ka-bl), a. [< L. evocare, call 
forth (see evoJce), -f- -able.] That may be called 
forth. 
An inner spirit evocable at call. 
The Independent (New York), Aug. 26, 1886. 
slant angle. 
evolution (ev-o-lu'shon), n. [= F. evolution 
= Sp. evolution = Pg. evolucao = It. evoluzione, 
< L. evolutw(n-), an unrolling or opening (of a 
book), < evolittus, pp. of evolrere, unroll, unfold: 
see evolve.] 1 . The act or process of unfolding, 
or the state of being unfolded ; an opening out 
or unrolling. 
The wise, as flowers, which spread at noon 
And all their charms expose, 
When evening damps and shades descend, 
Their evolutions close. Young, Resignation, i. 
The first appearance of the eye consists in the protru- 
sion or evolution from the medullary wall of the thalamen- 
cephalon or interbrain of a vesicle. 
H. Gray, Anat. (ed. 1887), p. 121. 
Hence 2. The process of evolving or becom- 
ing developed; an unfolding or growth from, 
or as if from, a germ or latent state, or from a 
plan ; development : as, the evolution of history 
or of a dramatic plot. 
The whole evolution of ages, from everlasting to ever- 
lasting, is so collected and presentiflckly represented to 
God at once, as if all things which ever were, are, or shall 
be, were at this very instant really present. 
Dr. H. More, Divine Dialogues. 
Ability to recognize and act up to this law [of equal 
freedom] is the final endowment of humanity an en- 
dowment now in process of evolution. 
H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 481. 
The evolution of the sickening vapours emitted by foul 
oxide need not be a source of annoyance, as the oxide can 
be revivified in the purifiers. 
W. R. Bowditch, Coal Gas, xi. 21. 
Specifically (a) In biol. : (1) The actual formation of a part 
or of the whole ol an organism which previously existed 
CVOCatet (ev'o-kat), V. t. [< L. evocatus, pp. of only as a germ or rudiment ; ordinary natural growth, as 
evocare, call forth: see evoke.] To call forth; 
evoke. 
He [Saul] had already shown sufficient credulity, in 
thinking there was any efficacy in magical operations to 
evocate the dead. Stackhottse, Hist. Bible, v. 3. 
evocation (ev-6-ka'shon), . [= OF. evocation, 
F. evocation = Pr. evocatio = Sp. evocation = Pg. 
evocacao = It. evocazione, < L. evocatio(n-'), < evo- 
care, call forth: see evoke.] 1. A calling or 
bringing from concealment; a calling forth: 
as, among the ancient Romans, the evocation of 
the gods of a besieged city to join the besiegers. 
Would Truth dispense, we could be content with Plato 
that Knowledge were but a remembrance ; that intellec- 
tual acquisition were but reminiscential evocation. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., Pref. 
He had called up spirits, by his evocation, more formid- 
able than he looked for or could lay. 
De Quincey, Homer, i. 
If emotion, with him, infallibly resolves itself into mem- 
ory, so memory is an evocation of throbs and thrills. 
H. James, Jr., The Century, XXXV. 871. 
2. In civil law, the removal of a suit from an 
inferior to a superior tribunal. 
of living creatures, from the germinal or embryonic to the 
adult or perfect state : as, the evolution of an animal from 
the ovum, or of a plant from the seed ; the evolution of the 
blossom from the bud, or of the fruit from the flower; the 
evolution of the butterfly from the caterpillar ; the evolu- 
tion of the brain from primitive cerebral vesicles, or of the 
lungs from an offshoot of the intestine. (2) The release, 
emergence, or exclusion of an animal or a plant, or of some 
stage or part thereof, from any covering which contained 
it : as, the evolution of spores from an encysted animal- 
cule ; the evolution of a moth from the cocoon, of an insect 
from the wood or mud in which it lived as a larva, of a 
chick from the egg-shell which contained it as an embryo. 
The parasite is often taken for the Hessian fly. ... 
Many have been deceived by the specious circumstance of 
its evolution from the pupa of the destroying insect. Say. 
(3) Descent or derivation, as of offspring from parents ; 
the actual result of generation or procreation. As a fact, 
this evolution is not open to question. As a doctrine or 
theory of generation, it is susceptible of different interpre- 
tations. In one view, the germ actually preexists in one 
or the other parent, and is simply unfolded or expanded, 
but not actually formed, in the act of procreation. (See 
ovulist, spermatist.) This view is now generally abandon- 
ed, the current opinion being that each parent furnishes 
materials for or the substance of the germ, whose evolution 
results from the union of such elements. See epifjcnesis. 
(4) The fact or the doctrine of the derivation or descent, 
evolutionism 
with modification, of all existing species, genera, orders, 
classes, etc., of animals and plants, from a few simple 
forms of life, if not from one ; the doctrine of derivation ; 
evolutionism. (See Darwinism.) In this sense, (locution 
is opposed to creationism, or the view that all living things 
have been created at some time substantially as they now 
exist. Modern evolutionary theories, however, are less 
concerned with the problem of the origination of life than 
with questions of the ways and means by which living or- 
ganisms have assumed their actual characters or forms. 
Phylogeiietic evolution insists upon the direct derivation 
of all forms of life from other antecedent forms, in no 
other way than as, in ontogeny, offspring are derived from 
parents, and consequently grades all actual affinities ac- 
cording to propinquity or remoteness of genetic succession. 
It presumes that, as a rule, such derivation or descent, 
with modification, is from the more simple to the more 
complex forms, from low to high in organization, and from 
the more generalized to the more specialized in structure 
and function ; but it also recognizes retrograde develop- 
ment, degeneration or degradation. The doctrine is now 
accepted by most biologists as a conception which most 
nearly coincides with the ascertained facts in the case, and 
which best explains observed facts, though it is held vith 
many shades of individual opinion in this or that particular. 
See natural selection, under selection. 
Evolution, or development, is, in fact, at present em- 
ployed in biology as a general name for the history of the 
steps by which any living being has acquired the morpho- 
logical and the physiological characters which distinguish 
it. Huxley, Evolution in Biology. 
(6) In general, the passage from unorganized simplicity to 
organized complexity (that is", to a nicer and more elabo- 
rate arrangement for reaching definite ends), this process 
being regarded as of the nature of a growth. Thus, the 
develoj 
matter 
plant c 
Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant 
dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes 
from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, 
coherent heterogeneity ; and during which the retained 
motion undergoes a parallel transformation. 
H. Spencer, First Principles, 145. 
The hypothesis of evolution supposes that in all this vast 
progression there would be no breach of continuity, no 
point at which we could say, " This is a natural process," 
and, "This is not a natural process " ; but that the whole 
might be compared to that wonderful process of develop- 
ment which may be seen going on every day under our eyes, 
in virtue of which there arises, out of the semi-fluid, com- 
paratively homogeneous substance which we call an egg, 
the complicated organization of one of the higher ani- 
mals. That, in a few words, is what is meant by the hy- 
pothesis of evolution. Huxley, Amer. Addresses, p. 10. 
(c) Continuous succession ; serial development. 
3. Inmath.: (a) In geom., the unfolding oropen- 
ing of a curve, and making it describe an evol- 
vent. The equable evolution of the periphery of a circle or 
other curve is such a gradual approach of the circumference 
to straightness that its parts do not concur and equally 
evolve or unbend, so that the same line becomes successive- 
ly a smaller arc of a reciprocally greater circle, till at last 
they change into a straight line. (ft) The extraction of 
roots from powers: the reverse of involution 
(which see). 4. A turning or shifting move- 
ment ; a passing back and forth ; change and 
interchange of position, especially for the work- 
ing out of a purpose or a plan ; specifically, the 
movement of troops or ships of war in wheel- 
ing, countermarching, manoeuvering, etc., for 
disposition in order of battle or in line on pa- 
rade : generally in the plural, to express the 
whole series of movements. 
These evolutions are doublings ol ranks or flies, counter- 
marches, and wheelings. Harris. 
5. That which is evolved; a product; an out- 
growth. 
evolutional (ev-o-lu'shon-al), a. [< evolution 
+ -al.] Of or pertaining'to evolution ; produced 
by or due to evolution; constituting evolution. 
It is not certain whether the idiots' brains had under- 
gone any local evolutional change as the result of educa- 
tion or training. //. Spencer, Inductions of Biology. 
The origin of life, and the conditions which have gradu- 
ally given rise to organization, are essential evolutional 
moments, as yet in the twilight of mere fanciful conjecture. 
Pop. Sci. Mo., XIII. 457. 
evolutionary (ev-o-lu'shon-a-ri), a. [< evolu- 
tion + -ary.] 1. Of or pertaining to evolution 
or development ; developmental : as, the evolu- 
tionary origin of species. 
Mr. Freeman owns no especial allegiance to Mr. Spencer 
or to any general evolutionary philosophy. 
J. FiKke, Evolutionist, p. 202. 
The bond of continuity which makes man the central 
link between his ancestors and his posterity is teolulion- 
ary, and, as such, dynamical. S. A. Rev., CXX. 255. 
2. Of or pertaining to evolutions or manoeuvers, 
as of an army, a fleet, etc. 
The French are making every effort to perfect the train- 
ing of their naval officers and seamen. Evolutionary 
squadrons are constantly at sea, accompanied by rams and 
torpedo-boats. .V. A. Rer., CXXXIX. 435. 
evolutionism (ev-o-lu'shon-izm), 11. [< evolu- 
tion + -ism.] The' metaphysical or the biologi- 
cal doctrine of evolution or development. 
I do not know whether Evolutionism can claim that 
amount of currency which would entitle it to be called 
