Evincement to Exaggeration

Evincement
(E*vince"ment) n. The act of evincing or proving, or the state of being evinced.

Evincible
(E*vin"ci*ble) a. Capable of being proved or clearly brought to light; demonstrable. Sir. M. Hale.

E*vin"ci*bly, adv.

Evincive
(E*vin"cive) a. Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.

Evirate
(E"vi*rate) v. t. [L. eviratus, p. p. of evirare to castrate; e out + vir man.] To emasculate; to dispossess of manhood. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Eviration
(Ev`i*ra"tion) n. [L. eviratio.] Castration. [Obs.]

Eviscerate
(E*vis"cer*ate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eviscerated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Eviscerating ] [L. evisceratus, p. p. of eviscerare to eviscerate; e out + viscera the bowels. See Viscera.] To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.

Evisceration
(E*vis`cer*a"tion) a. A disemboweling.

Evitable
(Ev"i*ta*ble) a. [L. evitabilis: cf. F. évitable.] Avoidable. [R.] Hooker.

Evitate
(Ev"i*tate) v. t. [L. evitatus, p. p. of evitare to shun; e out + vitare to shun.] To shun; to avoid. [Obs.] Shak.

Evitation
(Ev`i*ta"tion) n. [L. evitatio.] A shunning; avoidance. [Obs.] Bacon.

Evite
(E*vite") v. t. [Cf. F. éviter. See Evitate.] To shun. [Obs.] Dryton.

Eviternal
(Ev`i*ter"nal) a. [L. eviternus, aeternus. See Etern.] Eternal; everlasting. [Obs.] — Ev`i*ter"nal*ly, adv. Bp. Hall.

Eviternity
(Ev`i*ter"ni*ty) n. Eternity. [Obs.]

Evocate
(Ev"o*cate) v. t. [L. evocatus, p. p. of evocare. See Evoke.] To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke. [R.] Stackhouse.

Evocation
(Ev`o*ca"tion) n. [L. evocatio: cf. F. évocation.] The act of calling out or forth. Sir. T. Browne.

The evocation of that better spirit.
M. Arnold.

Evocative
(E*vo"ca*tive) a. Calling forth; serving to evoke; developing.

Evocative power over all that is eloquent and expressive in the better soul of man.
W. Pater.

Evocator
(Ev"o*ca`tor) n. [L.] One who calls forth. [R.]

Evoke
(E*voke") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evoked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Evoking.] [L. evocare; e out + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice: cf. F évoquer. See Voice, and cf. Evocate.]

1. To call out; to summon forth.

To evoke the queen of the fairies.
T. Warton.

A requlating discipline of exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.
De Quincey.


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