evanish, v.
(ɪˈvænɪʃ)
Forms: 5–6 evanesch, -isch, Sc. evanis, 7– evanish.
[a. OF. evaniss-, lengthened stem of evanir, corresp. to It. svanire:—popular L. *exvānīre = class. L. ēvānescĕre: see evanesce.]
1. intr. To vanish out of sight, disappear from view: a. of objects present to the eye.
| 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 370 Then Criste euaneschede awey. 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. p. xxxiii, Thay [heryings] be now evanist, for offence that is maid aganis sum Sanct. 1753 Melville in Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 268 A satellite, seen from the earth, ought to change its colour..and at last evanish in violet. a 1813 A. Wilson Poems, Foresters, At last the path evanishes from view. 1880 Browning Dram. Idylls Ser. ii. Muléykeh 99 And a leap indeed gave she, and evanished for ever more. |
b. of objects present only to the mind.
| 1599 James I βασιλ. Δωρον (1603) 104 The people will conceiue..præ-occupied conceits of the Kings inward intention: which although with time..it will euanish, by the euidence of contrary effects, yet interim patitur iustus. 1604 Earl Stirling Avrora, li, My happinesse evanish'd with the sleepe. 1728 Ramsay Gent. Sheph. Poems (1844) 43 And cares evanish like a morning dream. a 1813 A. Wilson Poems, To T. Wotherspoon, When all these evanished and horror distressed me. |
2. To vanish out of existence; to die away; to become dissipated or dispelled: said of both material and immaterial objects. Also with away.
| 1597 Lowe Chirurg. (1634) 84 That [Carbuncle] which appeareth and evanisheth away, is mortall. 1604 James I Counterbl. (Arb.) 109 All his members shall become feeble..and in the end..he shall euanish in a Lethargie. 1629 Rutherford Lett. No. 4 (1862) I. 44 A star, which going out of our sight, doth not die and evanish, but shineth in another hemisphere. 1639 J. Corbet Ungird. Scot. Arm. 6 If hee [the king] at the beginning had showne himselfe like a blazing Star, you had all evanished as smoak. 1790 H. Boyd Ruins of Athens in Poet. Reg. (1806–7) 75 Th' imperial bubble..breaks Spontaneous, or..Evanishes to nothing. 1830 Tennyson Poems 77 When thy light perisheth..Our life evanisheth. 1880 Muirhead tr. Instit. Gaius ii. §244 Servius holds..that the legacy evanishes if at the time it vests the legatee be still in potestate. |
Hence eˈvanished ppl. a., that has vanished, in senses of the vb. eˈvanishing vbl. n., the action of the vb. evanish; an instance of the same. eˈvanishing ppl. a., that vanishes or disappears. eˈvanishment, the action of evanishing, the fact of having evanished, disappearance.
| 1818 Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) I. 204 When..convalescence has made its [the imagination's] chilled and evanished figures and landscape bud, blossom and live in scarlet, green and snow white. 1829 J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXVI. 544 It hangs in the abyss of the evanish'd lake. 1853 G. Tate in Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 297 We shall now describe the forms of evanished animal life. 1633 W. Struther True Happiness 38 The first is a vacuitie; the second is a weaknesse; and the third an evanishing. 1797 Sir W. Scott in Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 99 After the evanishing of the deer. 1872 M. Collins Two Plunges for a Pearl II. x. 176 Ianthe's evanishing caused the Earl of Chessington to be more in love than ever. 1629 Symmer Spir. Posie i. i. 7 That evanishing shadow of seeming Charity. a 1649 Drummond of Hawthornden Bibl. Edin., Lectori Wks. 222 Riches being momentary and evanishing. 1886 Pall Mall G. 14 July 1/1 He has pursued the rapidly evanishing phantom of a Home Rule majority. 1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl (1813) II. 174 On the evanishment of her ducal vision. 1836 T. Hook G. Gurney viii, I contented myself with watching the evanishment of my bright star from the sphere which she adorned and illuminated. 1868 Browning Ring & Bk. vii. 1728 May my evanishment for evermore Help further to relieve the heart. |