evanid, a. Obs. or arch.
(ɪˈvænɪd)
Also 7 evanide.
[ad. L. ēvānid-us vanishing, related to ēvānescĕre: see evanesce.]
1. Vanishing away; of short duration; evanescent, fleeting, transient.
| 1626 Bacon Sylva (1631) §389 The Smell of the Flower is rather Euanide and Weaker than in the Leaues. 1664 Evelyn Sylva (1776) 372 This delicate and evanid flower [the Jasmine]. 1665 Glanvill Sceps. Sci. xxii. 139 As great a difference..as between the Sun, and an unconcocted evanid Meteor. 1699 Burnet 39 Art. i. (1700) 35 Those Animal Spirits are of such an Evanid and Subtile Nature. a 1711 Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 140 Ye trifling Honours..are th' evanid Bubbles of Mankind. 1751 Chambers Cycl. s.v., Some authors..use the..term to express those flowers of plants whose petals fall off as soon as they are opened. 1835 W. A. Butler in Blackw. Mag. XXXVII. 857 That misty veil Evanid, disenshrouding field and grove, Left us, a mirror of each heavenly hue. |
2. Faint, weak.
| 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. xii. 338 The decoctions of simples..are dead and evanid without the commixtion of Alume Argol, and the like. 1765 Warburton Div. Legat. iv. vi. (ed. 4) 94 How evanid is it [Dr. Shuckford's reasoning], therefore, when applied to a prophet under the impulse of inspiration. |
† 3. = emphatical 5.
| 1663 Boyle Exp. on Colours i. iv, A difference betwixt these apparent colours and those that are wont to be esteemed genuine, as to the duration, which has induced some learned men to call the former rather evanid than fantastical. 1751 Chambers Cycl. s.v., Evanid colours are the same with those otherwise called fantastical, and emphatical colours. |
Hence eˈvanidness. Obs.
| 1659 H. More Immort. Soul (1662) 151 Fooleries..that pinch our Perception into such an intolerable evanidness, that, etc. 1731–6 in Bailey. 1775 in Ash. |