evanescing, ppl. a.
(ɛvəˈnɛsɪŋ)
[f. evanesce + -ing2.]
That passes quickly away.
| 1805 Med. Jrnl. XIV. 537 Symptomatic fever of a mild nature took place about the 9th day, and the usual evanescing course followed. 1847 Emerson Repr. Men, Swedenborg Wks. (Bohn) I. 328 It is dangerous to sculpture these evanescing images of thought. |