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EVA 
the prefeft’s difpatches. 'He wrote an ecclefiaftical hif¬ 
tory, which begins where Socrates and Theodoret ended 
theirs ; and other works, for which he was rewarded by 
the emperors Tiberius and Mauricius. M. de Valois pub- 
lifhed at Paris a good edition of Evagrius’s Eccle(ia(tical 
Hiftory, in folio ; and it was republiftied at Cambridge in 
1620, in folio, by William Reading, with additional notes 
ot various authors. 
E'VAN, [_evon r Welfti.] A man’s name. It has affi¬ 
nity with the Ruffian Ivan , or John. 
E'VAN, a furnameof Bacchus, which he received from 
the wild ejaculation of Evan! Evan! by his priefteffes. 
Ovid. 
EVAN'DER, a fon of the prophetefs Carmente and 
the king of Arcadia. An accidental murder obliged him 
to leave his country, and he came to Italy, where he drove 
the Aborigines'from their ancient poffeffions, and reigned 
in that part of the country where Rome was afterwards 
founded. He kindly received Hercules when he returned 
from the eonqueft of Geryon ; and he was the firft who 
raifed him altars. He gave /Eneas affiftance againft the 
Rutuli, and diftinguiftied himfelf by his hofpitality. It 
is faid that he firft brought the Greek alphabet into Italy, 
and introduced there the worftiip of the Greek deities. 
He was honoured as a god after death, and his fubjefts 
railed him an altar on mount Aventine. Paufanias. 
EVANES'CENT, adj. [ evanefcens , Lat.] Vanifhing ; 
imperceptible ; leffening beyond the perception of the 
fenfes.—The difference between right and wrong, on 
fome petty cafes, isalmoft evanefcent. IVollaJlon. 
The downy orchard and tire melting pulp 
Of mellow fruit, the namelefs nations feed 
Of evanefcent infefts. Thomfon’s Spring. 
EVANGE'LICAL, adj. [ evangelique , Fr. evangelicus, 
Lat.] Agreeable to gofpel ; confonant to the Chriftian 
law revealed in the holy gofpel.—This diftinclion be¬ 
tween moral goodnefs and evangelical perfection, ought 
to have been obferved. Arbuthnot. —Contained in the gof. 
pel.—Thofe evangelical hymns they allow not to (land in 
our liturgy. 
EVAN'GELISM, f. The promulgation of the bleffed 
gofpel.—Thus was this land faved from infidelity,through 
the apoftolical and miraculous evangelifm. Bacon. 
EVAN'GELIST,/; [from evangelifla, Lat. cuayyi Airvj?, 
Gr. a meffenger, or bringer of good tidings.] A writer of 
the hiftory of our Lord jefus.—Each of thefe early wri¬ 
ters afcribe to the four evangelifls by name their refpeftive 
hiftories. Addfon. — A promulgator of the Chriftian laws. 
.—Thofe to whom he firft entrufted the promulgating of 
the gofpel, had inftruftions: and it were fit our new evan. 
gelijls ftiould fnow their authority. Decay of Piety. 
EVANGELIS'TORY, f. A pulpit; the office of an 
evangelift. Cole. 
To EVAN'GELIZE, v. a. [ evangelizo , Lat. evayy^fu, 
Gr.] To inftruft in the gofpel, or law of Jefus : 
The fpirit 
Pour’d firft on his apoftles, whom he fends 
T’ evangelize the nations; then on all 
Baptiz’d, (hall them with wond’rous gifts endue. Milton. 
EVAN'GELY,/. [wa.yyi\icv, Gr. that is, good tid¬ 
ings.] Good tidings ; the meffage of pardon and falva- 
tion ; the holy gofpel ; the gofpel of Jefus ; 
Good Lucius, 
That firft received Chriftianity, 
The facred pledge of Chrift’s evangely. Spenfer. 
EVANGORTDES, a man of Elis, who wrote an ac¬ 
count of all thofe who had obtained a prize at Olympia, 
where he himfelf had been vidtorious. Paufanias. 
EVA'NID, adj. [evanidus, Lat.] Faint; weak; evane¬ 
fcent.—I put as great difference between our new lights 
and ancient truth, as between the fun and an evanid me¬ 
teor. Glanville. 
To EVA'NISH, v. a. [evanefco, Lat.] To vanifti ; to 
efcape from notice or perception. 
E'VANSIIAM, a town of the American Slates, in 
Wythe county, Virginia, fituated on the eaft fide of Reedy 
creek, which falls into the Great Kanhaway, or New 
River. It contains a court-houfe and gaol : 40 miles 
weft by fouth of Chriftianbu’rg, 242 in a like direftion 
from Richmond, and 51S fouth-weft by weft of Phila¬ 
delphia. 
EVAN'TES,/. in antiquity, the priefteffes of Bacchus, 
thus called, becaufe in celebrating the orgia they ran about 
as if diftrafted, crying, Evan, evan, ohe evan! 
EUA'PHIU.M, f. [from tv, well, and atyn, Gr. the 
touch.] A medicine for the piles ; fo called becaufe its 
touch gives eafe. 
EVA'PORABLE, adj. Eafily diffipated in fumes or 
vapours.—Such cordial powders as are aromatic, their 
virtue lies in parts that are of themfelves volatile, and 
eafily evaporable. Grew. 
To EVA'PORATE, v. n. \_evaporo, Lat.] To fly away 
in vapours or fumes ; to wafte infenlibly as a volatile 
fpirit.—Poefy is of fo fubtle a fpirit, that in the pouring 
out of one language into another it will all evaporate. 
Denham. —Our works unhappily evaporate into words; we 
ftiould talk lefs and do more. Decay of Piety. 
To EVA'PORATE, v. a. To drive away in fumes ; to 
difperfe in vapours;—We perceive clearly that fire will 
warm or burn us, and will evaporate water. Watts. —To 
give vent to ; to let out in ebullition or fallies.—My lord 
of Effex evaporated his thoughts in a fonnet to be fung 
before the queen. Wotton. 
EVAPORA'TION,/! Theaft of flying away in fumes 
or vapours ; vent ; dilcharge.—They are but the fruits 
ofadufted clioler, and the evaporations of a vindictive fpirit. 
Howel. —The aft of attenuating matter, fo as to make it 
fume away.—Thofe waters, by rarefaftion and evaporation, 
afeended. Raleigh. 
Evaporation is produced by heat, and by the aftion of 
air: thus, common fait is formed by evaporating all the 
humidity in the brine or fait water; which evaporation 
is either performed by the heat of the fun, as in the falt- 
works on the fea-coaft ; or by means of fire, as at the falt- 
fprings, See. : and it is well known how ufeful a brifk 
wind is in drying wet clothes, or the furfaceof the ground ; 
while in a calm (till atmofphere, they dry extremely (low¬ 
ly. Thefe operations of nature are imitated in chemiftry 
for the purpofes of evaporation ; which differs both from 
exhalation and diftillation. See Chemistry, p. 190 and 
253. The phenomena of evaporation is accounted for on 
the principle of folution ; fo that from a variety of expe¬ 
riments, what we call evaporation, appears to be a gradual 
folution of water in air, produced and fupported by the 
fame means, viz. attraction, heat, and motion, by which 
other folutions are effefted. The abbe Nollet firft (tarted 
this opinion, in his Lefons de P/nfque Experimentale. He 
offers it as a conjefture, that the air of the atmofphere 
ferves as a folverit or fponge, with regard to the bodies 
that encompafs it, and receives into its pores the vapours 
and exhalations that are detached from the maffes to which 
they belong in a fluid ftate ; and he accounts for their 
afcent on the fame principles with the afeent of liquors in 
capillary tubes. On his hypothefis, the condenfation of 
the air contributes, like the fqueezing of a fponge, to 
their defeent. Dr. Franklin, in a paper of Philofophical 
and Meteorological Obfervations, fuggefted a (imilar hy¬ 
pothefis : obferving, that air and water mutually attract 
each other; and hence he concludes, that water will dif. 
folve in air, as fait in water ; every particle of air affirm¬ 
ing one or more particles of water ; and when too much 
is added, it precipitates in rain. But as there is not the 
fame contiguity between the particles of air as of water, 
the folution of water in air is not carried on without a mo¬ 
tion of the air, fo as to caufe a frelh acceffion of dry par¬ 
ticles. A fmall degree of heat fo weakens the cohefion of 
the particles of water, that thofe on the furface eafily 
quit it, and adhere to the particles of air : a greater de¬ 
gree of heat is neceffury to break the cohefion between 
water and air ; for its particles being by heat repelled to 
a greater diftance from each other, thereby more eafily 
keep the particles of water that are annexed to them from 
running 
