单词 | evanid |
释义 | evanidadj. Obsolete or archaic. 1. Vanishing away; of short duration; evanescent, fleeting, transient. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective] slidinga900 scrithingOE henwardOE swifta1225 short livya1325 passing1340 flittingc1374 shadowy1374 temporalc1384 speedfula1400 transitory?c1400 brittlea1425 unabidingc1430 frail?c1450 indurablec1450 scrithel?c1475 caduke1483 transitorious1492 passanta1500 perishinga1500 caducea1513 fugitive?1518 caducal?1548 quick1548 delible1549 flittering1549 undurable?1555 shadowish1561 fleeting1563 vading1566 flightful1571 wanzing1571 transitive1575 slipping1581 diary1583 unlasting1585 never-lasting1588 flit1590 post-like1594 running1598 short-lived1598 short-winded1598 transient1599 unpermanent1607 flashy1609 of a day1612 passable1613 dureless1614 urgenta1616 waxena1616 decayable1617 horary1620 evanid1626 fugitable1628 short-dated1632 fugacious1635 ephemerala1639 impermanent1653 fungous1655 volatile1655 ephemerousa1660 unimmortal1667 timesome1674 while-being1674 of passage1680 journal1685 ephemeron1714 admovent1727 evanescent1728 meteorous1750 deciduous1763 preterient1786 ephemeridal1795 meteorica1802 meteor1803 ephemerean1804 ephemerid1804 evanescing1805 fleeted1810 fleet1812 unenduring1814 unremaining1817 unimmortalized1839 impersistent1849 flighty1850 uneternal1862 caducous1863 diurnal1866 horarious1866 brisk1879 evasive1881 picaresque1959 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > deceptive fancy or illusion > [adjective] > of colours: merely apparent evanid1626 emphatical1646 fantastical1665 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §389 The Smell of the Flower is rather Euanide and Weaker, than that of the Leaues. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xix. 186 As great a difference..as between the Sun, and an unconcocted evanid Meteor. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1776) 372 This delicate and evanid flower [the Jasmine]. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) i. 35 Those Animal Spirits are of such an Evanid and Subtile Nature. a1711 T. Ken Edmund in Wks. (1721) II. v. 140 Ye trifling Honours..are th' evanid Bubbles of Mankind. 1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) (at cited word) 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 Blackwood's Mag. 37 857 That misty veil Evanid, disenshrouding field and grove, Left us, a mirror of each heavenly hue. 2. Faint, weak. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adjective] > ineffective > without force or cogency over-feeble?c1225 void1526 unforcible1597 strengthlessa1603 invalidous1611 invalid1643 evanid1646 non est1858 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. xii. 338 The decoctions of simples..are dead and evanid without the commixtion of Alume Argol, and the like. View more context for this quotation 1765 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses (ed. 4) III. iv. vi. 94 How evanid is it [Dr. Shuckford's reasoning], therefore, when applied to a prophet under the impulse of inspiration. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [adjective] > seeming or apparent > of colours emphatical1646 evanid1663 fantastical1665 1663 R. Boyle Exper. & Consid. 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. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Evanid are the same with those otherwise call'd Fantastical, and Emphatical Colours. Derivatives eˈvanidness n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [noun] > transience frailnessa1300 timelinessa1500 transitoriness1550 fleeting1616 temporality1635 wanzingness1642 transiency1647 impermanency1648 undurableness1648 transientness1653 fugacity1656 evanidness1659 fugaciousness1664 timeishness1674 timesomeness1674 volatilenessa1676 fleetingness1709 deciduousness1727 fleetness1727 momentaneousness1727 preterience1730 transience1739 evanescence1751 unpermanency1751 transitiveness1775 caducity1793 impermanence1796 ephemerality1822 passingness1839 transitionalness1880 anitya1882 diariness1891 anicca1904 ephemeralness1911 1659 H. More Immortality of Soul iii. ii. 342 Fooleries..that pinch our perception into such an intolerable streightness and evanidness, that,..[etc.]. 1731–6 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. 1775 in J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.1626 |
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