evincev.
/ɪˈvɪns/ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat
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to lower the boom on1920
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1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 167 Because it cannot be concocted, and euinced of nature, [it] filleth the body with crude..humours.
1650 T. Hubbert Pilula 100 They will keep their hold until they be evinced and cast out.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 232 Error by his own arms is best evinc't . View more context for this quotation
1678 H. Vaughan Thalia Rediviva 51 My Prince, Whose fullness no need could evince.
a. To convince. Also absol. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > bring to belief, convince [verb (transitive)] > of something
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1621 I. C. in T. Bedford's Serm. sig. I. 6 a Whether their..Consciences bee not..euidently euinced of the truth of the Gospell.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. Pref. sig. B2 Our Modern Engine [the Microscope] wil ocularly evince and unlearn them their opinions.
1668 M. Hale Pref. Rolle's Abridgm. 2 His arguments were fitted to prove and evince, not for ostentation, plain yet learned.
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. i. 13 The principal drift of his discourse was to evince the people, that the Religious were oblig'd to reprehend the Errors..of all people.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > refute, disprove [verb (transitive)]
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convince1530
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dispute1659
unreason1661
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demolish1691
to blow sky-high1819
1608–11 Bp. J. Hall Epist. vi. §5 Were we euer the true Church of God? Who hath admonished, euinced, excommunicated, us?
1661 A. Cowley Proposition Advancem. Exper. Philos. The Popular and received Errors in Experimental Philosophy..shall be evinced by tryal.
1672 Sir P. Leycester Prolegom. in Ormerod Cheshire (1880) I. 29 Not evinced by any solid answer or reason to the contrary.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > compel [verb (transitive)] > draw out or gain by compulsion or force
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1631 T. Adams in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 149 His profession of love..of readiness to assist in any thing..all which evince my most grateful acknowledgment.
a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 170 I shall wave the Arguments wherewith you endeavour to evince our Consent.
a. with simple object.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > prove, demonstrate [verb (transitive)]
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answer?a1425
appreve?c1450
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convictc1475
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remonstrate1601
clear1605
attaint1609
monstrate1609
evince1610
evince1611
improve1613
remonstrance1621
to make out1653
ascertain1670
to bring off1674
to make (something) to through1675
render1678
substantiatea1691
establisha1704
to bring out1727
realize1763
validate1775
1610 Bp. J. Hall Common Apol. against Brownists §5 Wee holde, and wish no lesse; your places evince no more.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 15 You shall see by what..arguments I will euince it, that most men are mad.
1662 R. Boyle Examen Mr. T. Hobbs 20, in New Exper. Physico-mechanicall (ed. 2) Having said thus much to evince against Mr. Hobbs the Gravity of the Air.
1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xx. 247 Who did..make it their business in their sermons to prove and evince the present proceedings in religion.
1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. 77 We require no more to evince the Falshood of that Assertion.
b. with object clause.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > prove, demonstrate [verb (transitive)]
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soothec950
fanda1000
kitheOE
betell1048
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prove?c1225
treousec1275
stablisha1325
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tryc1412
answer?a1425
appreve?c1450
to make gooda1470
convictc1475
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find1512
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evidencea1601
remonstrate1601
clear1605
attaint1609
monstrate1609
evince1610
evince1611
improve1613
remonstrance1621
to make out1653
ascertain1670
to bring off1674
to make (something) to through1675
render1678
substantiatea1691
establisha1704
to bring out1727
realize1763
validate1775
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. ix. 206/2 Our former allegations doe euince, that [etc.].
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 15 Having detected the insufficiency of them, by evincing..how far they are from being conclusive.
1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 419 We want not instances from lithotomy to evince, that wounds of this part are curable.
c. with infinitive. To prove (a person or thing) to be (so and so).
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1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 218 Judicious Commentators doe clearely evince this forme of congratulation, Hosanna, to be precatory.
1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. clxxvii. 750 ♄—being in ♉ an earthly Signe—will evince the Native to accumulate Wealth by Pastorage, Tillage, etc.
1667 Naphtali Postscr. (1761) 276 They will evince him to be the archest traitor that ever Scotland bred.
1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xi. 136 The practice of the lawyers..evinced this and the rest to be good laws.
d. absol. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > prove, demonstrate [verb (transitive)] > by testimony
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evince1649
1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions ii. v. 154 The accuser complaines, the witnesse evinceth, the Judge sentences.
5. To be an indication or evidence of; to make evident or manifest. Const.
a. with simple object.
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1777 W. Anderson Jrnl. 11 July in J. Cook Jrnls. (1967) III. ii. 928 Their peacable disposition is sufficiently evinc'd from the friendly reception all strangers have met with.
1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxvi. 561 The contrivances of nature decidedly evince intention.
1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. 597 The presence of..resin, and fibre, are esteemed to evince the original vegetable character.
a1866 G. Grote Fragm. Ethical Subj. (1876) iii. 52 Nothing can more clearly evince the preponderance of this view.
b. with object clause or preceded by as.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)] > be or give evidence of
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sustain?c1425
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to speak to ——1624
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. vi. iii. 373 Fishes..which, as common experience evinceth, are much affected with Musick.
1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant vii. 22 The Ruins that are round about do sufficiently evince that anciently there were great Buildings in this Place.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 40 b A Tower..made its way thro' the ground it stood upon, which, as the fact evinced, was a loose weak soil.
1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France (1789) I. vii. 45 What is mentioned in my last letter..evinces how very opposite their sentiments are.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic xi. 359 These considerations appear to me to evince very clearly, that [etc.].
6.
a. To give tokens of possessing; to reveal the presence of (a quality, condition, feeling); to display, exhibit, manifest.
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society > communication > manifestation > [verb (transitive)]
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to throw out1741
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1829 W. Scott Rob Roy (new ed.) I. Introd. p. xli The knees and upper part of the leg..evincing muscular strength.
1853 C. Brontë Villette III. xxxix. 229 His answers..evinced both wisdom and integrity.
1879 A. J. C. Hare Life & Lett. Baroness Bunsen I. iii. 65 The extreme truthfulness..of both her father and mother is so quaintly evinced in the following letter.
b. reflexive. To show oneself (to be) so and so.
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society > communication > manifestation > [verb (reflexive)] > by action or behaviour
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acquit1642
evincec1804
c1804 J. Foster Let. in Life & Corr. J. Foster (1846) I. 267 It is not..by going very often into society that I evince myself a social man.
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