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inevident, a. Now rare.|ɪnˈɛvɪdənt| [ad. late L. inēvident-em (Boeth.): see in-3 and evident: cf. F. inévident (Littré).] Not evident, not manifest; lacking evidence; not clear or obvious, obscure.
1614Jackson Creed iii. xxxii. Contn. 1st Bk., (tr. Valentia) Seeing aswell the diuine reuelations, as the Churches infallible proposall are obscure and ineuident [orig. obscuræ et ineuidentes]. a1623W. Pemble Wks. (1635) 94 Knowledge is an assent to things evident, Beliefe an assent to things inevident. a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 267 Our Schoolmen make distinction of a certainty, evident, and inevident. a1755Bp. Conybeare Serm. II. viii. (T.), An undoubting assent to those things which are of themselves inevident. Mod. Newspaper, A mysterious widening out and flow in the skirt, the cause whereof is beautifully inevident. |