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of whom the flames of Cain, Abel, and Seth, only are 
trarifmitted to us in the Hebrew Scriptures, and no infor 
mation is afforded us of the time of her death. See the 
article Adam, vol. i. p. 105. 
EVE, or E ven, f. (aepen, Sax. avend, or avond, Dut.] 
The clofe of the day ; the latter part of the day; the 
interval between bright light and darknefs: 
Th’ unerring fun by certain figns declares 
What the late ev’n or early morn prepares. Dryden, 
Winter, oft at eve, refumes the breeze. 
Chills the pale morn. Thomfon. 
The vigil or faft to be obferved before an holiday. In 
rhis fenfe only eve is ufed, not even. —Let the immediate 
preceding day be kept as the eve to this great feaft. Duppa. 
EVE'A,/ in botany. See Callicocca. 
EVEC'TION,y. [Latin. ] A lifting up; a carrying forth; 
alfo a praifing and extolling. This term is ufed by af- 
tronomers for the libratio'n of the moon. It is alfo ufed 
to denote that equation of the moon’s motion which is 
proportional to the fine of double the diftance of the 
moon from the fun, diminifhed by the moon’s anomaly: 
this equation is not yet accurately determined ; fome date 
it at i° 30', others at i° 16', &c. It is the greateft of all 
the moon’s equations, except the equation of the center. 
See the article Astronomy, vol. ii. p. 375, &c. 
EVEIL'LON (James), a learned French ecclefiaftic, 
born at Angers in 1542. Fie fo diftinguifhed himfelf 
in his academical ftudies, that when he was. very young he 
was appointed regent of the rhetorical fchool at Nantes. 
In 1620, William Fouquet, bifhop of Angers, knowing 
his worth, and defirous of fixing him in his diocefe, made 
him a canon of his cathedral, and his grand-vicar. His 
pen was frequently employed on matters relating to 
church difcipline, the reformation of breviaries, rituals,, 
and monadic inditutions. On one occafion it was reforted 
to for the defence of the monkifh legends againft the able 
and fpirited attacks of the celebrated John Launois. 
The title of Eveillon’s work Was Apologia Capitidi Ecclefite 
Andcgaveiifis pro JanElo Renato, EpiJ'copofuo, adverj'us dijpu- 
tationem duplicem Joannis Launoii, 1650, 8vo. He alfo pub- 
liflied a learned and curious work, De ProceJJivnibus Eccle- 
Jiajlias, in quo earum Injlitutio, Significatio, Ordo, et Ritus ex- 
plicantue, 1641, Svo.; a work, Be rcEla PJallendi Ratione, 
3646, qto. ; and a voluminous Treatile concerning Moni¬ 
tions and Excommunications, 1631, 4to. which has been 
highly prized in the catholic communion. Eveillon was 
a man, who, from his extenfive charities, merited the 
title of father of the poor, to vvhofe relief he devoted 
the whole of a liberal income, excepting what was ne- 
ceffary for the frugal funport, and very limited conve¬ 
niences, to which he redrifted himfelf. He died in 1621, 
at the age of feventy-nine years. 
E'VELYN (John), foil of Richard Evelyn, of Wot- 
ton in Surrey, born in 1620. He had his early education 
at the free-fchool of Lewes in Suffex, whence he was re¬ 
moved to Baliol college, Oxford. When the civil wars 
commenced, he obtained leave from the king to travel 
abroad, and fpent fome years in Italy and France, im¬ 
proving his mind in curious and ufeful knowledge. In 
.1647, he married at Paris the only daughter of fir Richard 
Browne, the king’s minifter the-re, in w hole right he be¬ 
came polfelfed of the manficn of Sayes-court near Dept¬ 
ford. He returned to England about 1631, and em¬ 
ployed himfelf in literary occupations, of which the fird 
fruits were fome tranflations from the French. Fie alfo, 
in 1 $36, made an eddy of his talent for verfifying, by a 
trandationof the fird book of Lucretius ; but though his 
attempt was highly complimented by the mule of Waller, 
^t has not given him a place among Englifh poets. He 
was gracioully received by king Charles on his return, 
and came more into public life, though he dill continued 
his literary occupations. One of his principal works ap¬ 
peared in 1662, entitled Sculpttira, or the Flidory and Art 
of Chalcography or Engraving on Copper, 3 vo, This is 
1 
EVE 
a curious and learned piece ; and though not free from 
pedantry, contains much valuable information with 
refpeft to the fubjedt. It was thought worthy ofreprint*- 
ing in 1735, with additions and correlations, and an etching 
of the author by Worlidge. On the inditution of the 
Royal Society in 1662, he was nominated among the fird 
fellows and members of the council, and he continued a 
zealous and active alfociate of that learned body. At its 
meetings was fird read that difeourfe on fored trees, 
which afterwards was the bafts of bis mod celebrated pub¬ 
lication. This was Sylva, or a Difeourfe of Fored T. rees„ 
and the Propagation of Timber in his Majedy’s Dominions: 
to which is annexed Pomona, or an Appendix concerning 
Fruit Trees in relation to Cider, &c. 1664, folio. This 
work has been feveral times reprinted, the lad time in 
1776 by Dr. Andrew Hunter, of York, who added afetof 
excellent plates of all the trees, in which their parts of 
fructification are accurately difplayed according to theLin- 
naean fydemi As a fequel to this work he afterwards pub- 
lillied Terra; a Philolophical Difeourfe of Earth, relating 
to the Culture and Improvement of it for Vegetation and 
the Propagation of Plants ; 1675, folio and Svo. This 
was likewife" reprinted, with notes, by Dr. Hunter, in 
1778. The king’s regard for Mr. Evelyn was diewn 
by his appointment to be a commiffioner for rebuilding 
St. Paul’s. For this office lie proved his fitnefs by pub- 
liftiing a work entitled A Parallel of the ancient Archi¬ 
tecture with the modern, tranflated from the French of 
Roland Freart, fieur de Chambray ; with additions from 
Alberti* and other writers. At.this period he refided at 
his houfe of Sayes-court, where he cultivated a garden 
and plantations, which were greatly admired ; and he 
ranks among thole who took the lead in the improvement 
of horticulture, and the introduction of exotics in this 
country. When Charles II. formed a board of trade, he 
was nominated one of the members ; and on this occafion 
he drew up a treatife on the origin and progrefs of navi¬ 
gation and commerce, with an affertion of the king’s ti¬ 
tle to the dominion of the fea. Among the papers which 
he communicated to the Royal Society is a curious letter 
defcribmg the mifehiefs done to his garden at Sayes-court 
by the uncommonly fevere winter of 1683-4. It is valu¬ 
able, both as affording information of the perennials at 
that time chiefly cultivated in Englifli gardens, and as 
Hating the effeCts of rigorous froft upon them. He has 
lamented in another place the greater injury his garden 
received from the rough ufage it underwent during the 
time he lent his houfe to the czar Peter for his relidence 
while lludying the art of (hip-building at Deptford. That 
great but rude fovereign, it feems, took a delight in the 
paftime of being wheeled backwards and forwards in a 
barrow through Mr. Evelyn’s “ mod: glorious and im¬ 
penetrable holly hedge,” which he mentions as the pride 
of his garden. He continued to amufe his declining 
years with the ftudies w hich had occupied his early life ; 
andbefides various tranflations, he publiftied a work en¬ 
titled Numifmata ; a Difeourfe of Medals ancient and 
modern’: to which is added, a Digreffion concerning 
Phyliognomy, 3697, folio. His laft work is entitled 
Acetaria ; a Difeourfe of Sallets, 1699, Svo. in which 
he treats of the nature and properties of all plants which 
have been employed as fallad herbs. Flis faculties, pro¬ 
longed by the temperance and ferenity of his life, ferved 
him ftill to prepare anew edition of his Sylva, which talk 
he fulfilled a (hort time before his death, in February, 
1706, in his eighty-fixth year. 
EUEM'BOL.US,/.[ev, well, and ep£'a.M.u, Gr. to put 
in.] One expert at fetting bones and reducing luxations. 
EVEM'ERUS, an ancient hiftorian of Meffenia, inti¬ 
mate with Callander. Fie travelled over Greece and 
Arabia, and wrote an hiftory of the gods, in which he 
proved that they all had been upon earth as mortal men. 
Ennius tranflated it into F.atin. It is now loft. 
E'VEN, adj. [epen, Sax. even, Dut. aquus, Lat.] Le¬ 
vel ; not rugged j not unequal y fmooth as oppofed to 
rough. 
