Even.1
/iːv/, U.S. /iv/ 1.
a. The first woman in the biblical account of the creation of the world, as a symbol of fallibility, as a temptress, or as the mother of the human race, as described in Genesis. Cf. mother n.1 1c.In Genesis 2, God creates Eve from one of Adam's ribs to be his counterpart or companion; the serpent persuades her to eat the forbidden fruit and she persuades Adam to do likewise, leading to humankind's fall into sin. She gives birth to Cain, Abel, Seth, and other children.In certain Christian theologies (e.g. Roman Catholic and Orthodox), Eve's transgressions are redeemed by the Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus; cf. new Eve n. at new adj. and n. Compounds 2a.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] > first ancestor or patriarch > Adam and Eve as > Eve
EveeOE
forme-modera1450
grandam1531
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) liii. 417 Sio nædre on neorxna wonge..lærde Euan on woh, & Eue hi hire underðio[d]de mid lustfulnesse, swa swa lichoma.
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxx. 434 Ðurh ure ealde moder Euan us wearð heofonan geat belocen & eft þurh Marian hit is us geopenod.
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxx. 264 Se swicola deofol genam þæt wif him to gefylstan, þæt he ðone halgan wer ðurh hi beswice, swa swa he ær Adam þurh Euan beswac.
a1200 (?OE) MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 191 (MED) Þe alde neddre þe bipehte eue and adam.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Royal) (1981) l. 408 Ure eareste aldren adam ant eue.
c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) l. 2074 (MED) Sche was fikel vnder hir lok, And hadde a parti of Eue smok.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. iii. 20 Adam clepide þe name of his wyf Eue, þoru þat þat sche was moder of all þingeȝ.
c1405 (c1380) G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 62 Thogh that I, vnworthy sone of Eue Be synful.
1493 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Pynson) vi. x. sig. sviv/2 Not al men dyed through the synne of eue but through the synne of adam.
?1526 G. Hervet tr. Erasmus De Immensa Dei Misericordia sig. Kii Why herest thou vnhappy progeny of Eue [L. Euae progenies] the serpent with vayne promises entysyng the to distruction.
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall 15 I doo not thinke..but the olde Serpent can tempt the perfectest Eue that euer was, and then let Eue alone to perswade hir husband.
1654 T. Watson Autarkeia xiv. 271 §16 If there were no devil to tempt, the flesh would be another Eve to tempt to the forbidden fruit.
1665 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Forty Questions of Soul xxxvi. 384 No pure Virgin is born of Eve, but all are her Daughters.
1730 H. Fielding Temple Beau iii. xii. 45 Well have ye revenged the Sin of Eve upon us: for Man has since supplied the Serpent's Place, and scandalously lurks to cause our Ruin.
1790 W. Combe Devil upon Two Sticks I. iv. 80 Some among the elder members of this community, proved their descendancy from the common mother, Eve.
1859 P. Schaff Hist. Christian Church ii. iv. 277 He [sc. Irenæus] calls Mary the counterpart of Eve, the ‘mother of all living’ in a higher sense.
1894 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Jan. 32 It was in Eve's fall that we really fell. She did it, and she or her daughters have been at the bottom of many an important movement in the world since then.
1912 Christian Reg. (Boston) 12 Sept. 877/2 May he give us some of the courage and power of individual choice which is ours by hereditary right from Eve our mother!
1975 B. Felton & M. Fowler Most Unusual 148 The Ophites..felt that the temptation of Eve brought knowledge and revolt into the world, and hence was a positive rather than a sinful event.
2015 Guardian (Nexis) 15 Jan. [She] embodies all the old saws that have defined women since the year dot: she's the whore of Babylon, the temptress Eve,..the femme fatale.
b. A person (usually a woman) likened to Eve, esp. in being a man's wife or rightful companion, a temptress, or the cause of a man's downfall. Cf. new Eve n. at new adj. and n. Compounds 2a.
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1612 R. Daborne Christian turn'd Turke i. iii. sig. E I'le fit you with an Eue sir, a temptresse.
1691 T. Brown Weesils ii. sig. D Nor had I power to deny my Eve, No more than he whom she did first deceive.
1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus Colloq. 27 He'll ne'er need to want an Eve that has gotten a good Benefice.
1822 W. Hazlitt Let. 9 June (1979) xcv. 267 My Eve,..my wife, my sister, my sweet friend, my all.
1866 Beadle's Dime Humorous Speaker 86 Oh, young men, who dream..Of a home of your own, which no discord can blight,..And an Eve whom no contraband apple can tempt.
1887 A. Kepler Mrs. Horace v. 47 ‘Your half admitting that..makes me all the more anxious to know,’ said this veritable Eve, with all a woman's insatiable curiosity.
1909 MotorBoat 25 Feb. 5/1 Imagine the bliss of his having an Eve to tempt him to eat of the luscious and unforbidden fruit of Florida.
1997 K. Jensen Twelve-month Marriage 132 A tight little blonde like that could..steal a man's will to live. Maybe she was his Eve. Maybe she'd offer the apple that would be his downfall.
2014 J. Heynen Ordinary Sins 72 For two years..his fantasies of his ideal mate flourished, one day, there she was—his Eve, his Beatrice, his Sophia Loren!
2. Biology. The female carrier of the mitochondrial DNA sequence from which all modern human mitochondrial DNA sequences are derived. Chiefly attributive, designating the hypothesis that this indicates a relatively recent common ancestry for all modern humans, originating in Africa 150,000–200,000 years ago, as Eve hypothesis, Eve theory, etc.Earliest in African Eve n. at African n. and adj. Compounds 2a. See also mitochondrial Eve n. at mitochondrial adj. Compounds.In quot. 1983 showing slightly earlier allusion to the biblical figure Eve in the context of matrilineal mitochondrial DNA inheritance.
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1983 N. Barton & J. S. Jones in Nature 24 Nov. 318/3 The matrilineal patterns of mitochondrial inheritance do mean that we are all more closely related to our mothers than to our fathers: to Eve than to Adam.]
1984 Jrnl. Afr. Civilizations 6 5 The drama surrounding the find of the African Eve is intriguing, especially in the way it is handled by Donald Johannson and Maitland Eddy.
1990 R. L. Ciochon et al. Other Origins ii. 21 Perhaps Wolpoff's most convincing single argument against the Eve hypothesis is his postulation that the complete replacement of one human population by another has never been possible, because there is always a process of admixture at work.
1997 M. Wolpoff & R. Caspari Race & Human Evol. i. 41 The Eve theory of modern human origins is a consequence of claims made about where and when she lived, based on the conclusion that the mitochondrial Eve was an Eve for all humanity.
2006 D. Mills Atheist Universe v. 133 With a name like ‘Eve hypothesis’, I find it easy to forgive those who misunderstand the nature of the genetics research.
Phrases
not to know (someone) from Eve: not to know or recognize (a person, typically a woman) (at all); to be unacquainted with. Cf. not to know (someone) from Adam at Adam n.1 Phrases 3a.
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1865 Allen's Indian Mail 16 Sept. 689/2 Several ladies and gentlemen whose faces I have not seen, and whom I should not know from Adam or Eve.]
1868 Reynolds's Misc. 26 Dec. 26/2 Neither shall I distrust Travers, because some woman I don't know from Eve..tells me to.
1899 West End 5 Apr. 262/1 But for his clothing, I should not have known him from Eve.
1913 E. Ferber Roast Beef Medium ii. 43 Why,..I don't know you from Eve, but..I know you're busy regretting.
2003 Vogue 1 Sept. 112/2 The soccer star, who didn't know her from Eve, happily signed the ball of her adoring son.
Compounds
Eve's pudding n. (also Mother Eve's pudding) (a) a boiled pudding made with apples, currants, breadcrumbs and suet, popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; (b) a dessert made with apples and sponge cake mixture, baked to form a layer of cake with stewed apple beneath.In allusion to the ‘forbidden fruit’ eaten by Eve in the Bible, which is traditionally represented as an apple (cf. apple n. 3).The earliest examples referring to the sponge type of dessert in sense (b) do not include any apples (see quot. 1856); the allusion here may instead be simply to something regarded as primitive or simple.
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1788 Weekly Entertainer 9 June 551 A Receipt to make Eve's Pudding... Take of the fruit that Eve once did cozen, Well pared and well chopp'd, at least half a dozen [etc.].
1812 M. E. Rundell New Syst. Domest. Cookery (new ed.) 142 Eve's pudding. Grate three quarters of a pound of bread; mix it with the same quantity of shred suet, the same of apples, and..currants.
1824 Mirror Lit., Amusem., & Instr. 18 Dec. 440/1 Mother Eve's Pudding—a Recipe.
1856 J. H. Walsh Man. Domest. Econ. vii. xiii. 517/1 Eve's pudding... Mix the flour, beating it with the butter, then the sugar; add a little citron, almonds, or lemon-peel; break the eggs and beat yolks and whites separate [etc.].
1862 M. Somerville Cookery & Domest. Econ. 129 Eve's pudding. Pare and core nice baking apples, place them in a pie-dish, cover with a batter made of..butter beaten to a cream, the same of sugar and flour [etc.].
1996 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 2 July 5 Mother Eve's or Eve's Pudding: A baked apple pudding with layers of apple slices covered with a rich batter and baked until golden.
2016 Irish Times (Nexis) 9 Apr. (Sat. Mag. section) 22 One of her regulars was Eve's Pudding, traditionally made with a base of apples stewing while a Victoria sponge mixture cooks on top.
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even.2
/iːv/, U.S. /iv/ 1. The close of the day; evening. Also figurative. Now poetic, literary, and archaic.Recorded earliest in evesong n.tomorn eve, yester-eve, yestern eve: see the first element.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun]
evenOE
eventideOE
eveningOE
eventimeOE
evea1250
evetimec1300
even whilea1375
evetidea1382
supper timec1390
supper whilea1425
forenight1513
evening-tide1521
supperwardc1563
after-supperc1596
Vesperugo1600
vesper1613
far-day1650
eveg1675
evg1777
dew-falla1822
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 10 (MED) Vor euesonge, viftene; vor eueriche oþer tide, seouene.
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 332 Ac þu singest allelonge niȝt From eve fort hit is dai liȝt.
c1300 St. Brendan (Harl.) (1844) 10 The foweles tho hit eve was, bigonne here evesong.
c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) l. 729 Hit gan sone to wexen eue.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. vi. l. 117 On saterday at eue.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ix. l. 2024 The faire day men do preise at eue.
c1550 Clariodus (1830) iii. 101 Meliades..Bad him, that he sould quyetlie at eve, Unto hir wairdrope cum and take his leave.
1588 tr. Theocritus Six Idillia sig. A6v And therewithal at eve, a wedding song they iointly sung.
1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell ix. 120 The yeaue of the Conquering of France, is the morning of the Conquest of England.
1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 35 Such sights as youthfull Poets dream On summer eeves by haunted stream.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 743 From Noon to dewy Eve . View more context for this quotation
1728 J. Thomson Spring 2 Winter oft at Eve resumes the Breeze.
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 59 He takes his Leave, To re-embrace, in Ecstasies, at Eve.
1820 J. Keats Ode to Nightingale in Lamia & Other Poems 110 The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.
1833 H. Martineau Charmed Sea i. 4 To tell the tale from eve to morning, and from morning to eve again.
1908 S. Phillips Iole in New Poems 147 How shall it comfort me when rain begins At early eve, that I did save the city?
1917 I. A. Baber Carolanus & Merone 105 For many morns the sun smiled down Upon the vine that clung there still, And many eves, the moonlight soft The outline of those two did trace.
1989 N. Cave And Ass saw Angel i. vi. 46 It was on one wet and eldritch eve that Rebecca Swift..heard a knocking in her head.
2014 E. Shafak Architect's Apprentice (2016) 5 One bitter winter eve, wolves had descended on the city.
2.
a. The evening, and hence the day, that immediately precedes a particular day or event, esp. a holy day or religious festival. Also figurative.All Hallows' Eve, Christmas Eve, May Eve, Michaelmas eve, midsummer eve, New Year's Eve, Palmsun eve, Whitsun eve, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > special or ceremonial days > eve of
eveneOE
evec1300
wake1600
society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] > eve of
eveneOE
holinight?c1225
evec1300
vespera1631
c1300 St. Wolston (Laud) l. 202 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 76 In þe Monþe of Ieneuer a-seint Fabianes eue.
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 1 (MED) By-ffore six dayes of Ester as a palme-sone eue Iesus wente to Bethanye.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xiv. l. 86 Þauh he worche Haly day oþer holy eue hus mete to deserue.
1480 Cronicles Eng. (Caxton) ccxxvi. sig. p5 In the same yere on Midsomer eue he began to saill toward fraunce.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxxijv The Duke..came to his Castle..on Christmas eue.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Aug. 54 It fell vpon a holly eue, hey ho hollidaye.
a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 123 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Vpon the 23. of August, being Saint Bartholomewes Eeve.
a1662 B. Duppa Holy Rules Devot. (1675) ii. 157 Let the immediate preceding day be kept as the eve to this great feast.
a1674 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. & Reflexions upon Psalms in Coll. Several Tracts (1727) 497 Our time in this world is but a short eve to an everlasting holiday.
1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. 47 Luther was..born..on the 10th of November, the eve of Martinmas-day, from whence he had the name of Martin.
1799 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (ed. 2) III. 692 On the eve of the funeral, on the day of it, and the last day of the year.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 77 A father's blessing and St Valentine's, whose blessed eve this chances to be.
1859 C. M. Yonge Cameos liii, in Monthly Packet Sept. 229 On the eve of the new year 1370, he [sc. Chandos] set forth to retake the town of St. Salvin.
1884 J. H. Blunt Annot. Bk. Common Prayer 118 All Festivals have Eves, including Sundays, but only some have Vigils.
1902 Truth (London) 6 Nov. 1145/2 The festival of All Saints affords no explanation of why its eve should be associated with the eating of apples and nuts.
1946 Times 1 Mar. 2/5 1,500 Welshmen attended the first eve of St. David's Day service held there since before the war.
1954 Newsweek 12 Apr. 90/2 He..reportedly prescribed phenobarbitone pills for a good night's sleep on the eve of the race.
2013 Church Times 28 Mar. 16/2 It was both the eve of Passover and the day of preparation.
b. In extended use. The time immediately preceding some event, action, etc. Chiefly in on the eve of.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > time preceding something or eve
before1551
eve1626
aforetime1803
run-up1961
1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. iii. 363 The fountaine of Narni, which neuer distilled his streames, but on the eue of a famine.
1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas III. viii. v. 134 I am just on the eve of becoming Mercury to the heir of the kingdom.
1780 T. Jefferson Corr. in Wks. (1859) I. 269 We are upon the eve of a new arrangement as to our commissary's and quarter-master's departments.
1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 165 The hull on the eve of sinking.
1807 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 9 702 Why did the appointment take place on the eve of a general election?
1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire v. 65 These regions seemed on the eve of being lost to Christendom.
1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. vi. 60 Zionists..who at the eve of the war had been waiting for their turn on the immigration quota.
1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill vi. 165 The girls were on the eve of departing on their business.
2011 New Yorker 5 Sept. 24/1 On the eve of the biggest financial crisis in memory, the European Central Bank did something both predictable and stupid: it raised interest rates.
Phrases
P1. Preceding of and a noun to form attributive phrases with the sense ‘of, relating to, or occurring in the period immediately preceding a specified event’, as eve-of-battle, eve-of-election, eve-of-poll, etc.
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1910 Manch. Guardian 3 Dec. 11/4 (headline) Eve-of-poll message to Manchester.
1943 Times of India 27 Mar. 1/2 An eve-of-battle message to the Eighth Army.
1960 D. Potter Glittering Coffin Postscript p. iii The most savagely controversial eve-of-poll issue.
1996 O. S. Card Treasure Box (1997) xvii. 335 He knew at once that this sudden desperate desire he felt for Sally Sannazzaro was nothing but eve-of-death syndrome.
2005 Guardian 9 May (Media section) 8/1 A topless Tony Blair appeared in its eve-of-election issue as its ‘torso of the week’.
2012 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 8 Mar. 27/2 We have as yet..no proof of any impropriety in the relationship between Bates and the earl—no eve-of-battle indiscretion on the veldt, no cuddles on the High Karoo.
P2. at eve and morn, from morn to eve, etc.: see morn n. 2b.
Compounds
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1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 162. ⁋2 A Country Wake, which you know in most Parts of England is the Eve-Feast of the Dedication of our Churches.
1873 J. Harland & T. T. Wilkinson Lancs. Legends ii. 84 The fair was held..on the eve feast of St Matthew the Apostle.
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1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xx. 466 They rise, and bid prepare An eve-repast.
evetide n. now archaic and literary the time of evening, evening; (also figurative) the latter part of something; = eventide n.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun]
evenOE
eventideOE
eveningOE
eventimeOE
evea1250
evetimec1300
even whilea1375
evetidea1382
supper timec1390
supper whilea1425
forenight1513
evening-tide1521
supperwardc1563
after-supperc1596
Vesperugo1600
vesper1613
far-day1650
eveg1675
evg1777
dew-falla1822
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xxxviii. 32 Thou bringist..the euetid sterre [a1425 L.V. euene sterre; L. vesperum] vp on the sones of the erthe.
1448 J. Lydgate Kings of Eng. (Arms) in T. Hearne Chron. Robert of Gloucester (1724) 484 Quene Alionore..childed a sone..in the Cristesmasse ene [read eue]. In whiche enetid [read euetid] appered in the West .ii. sterres of fuyry colour.
1483 tr. Adam of Eynsham Reuelation xiv Y laye in the chaptur hows tyl the euetyde of saturday foloyng.
1810 J. Stagg Minstrel of North 122 By eve-tide Johanna was dead!
1856 Friends' Intelligencer 22 Nov. 575/1 Autumn days are..gently stealing, O'er the evetide of the year.
a1986 L. Kennedy Ivy of Angel (1993) 99 I was called Jasmine, after that lovely purple-leaved shrub which casts the sweet odours of its white flowers out in the evetide.
evetime n. now rare (archaic and poetic in later use) evening, evening time; (also figurative) the latter part of something; cf. eventime n. at even n.1 Compounds.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun]
evenOE
eventideOE
eveningOE
eventimeOE
evea1250
evetimec1300
even whilea1375
evetidea1382
supper timec1390
supper whilea1425
forenight1513
evening-tide1521
supperwardc1563
after-supperc1596
Vesperugo1600
vesper1613
far-day1650
eveg1675
evg1777
dew-falla1822
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) l. 8912 In þan euetime [c1275 Calig. auen-time] þe mone gan to scyne.
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 6417 Þo hit com to þan eue-time [c1275 Calig. æuen-time].
1838 Ld. Houghton Memorials Resid. on Continent 120 Light was called to meet her prime, Thunder waits on her eve-time.
1921 J. L. Hughes In Nature's Temple Shrines 21 The silver drops were turned to gold At evetime, when the sun Kissed them good-bye.
2010 Z. Sitchin There were Giants upon Earth vi. 103 The reading started at evetime on the festival's fourth day.
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1767 J. Hill Veg. Syst. XII. 7 Eveweed. Hesperis.
1767 J. Hill Veg. Syst. XII. 7 Dingy Eveweed..Hesperis Tristis... Dames Eveweed... Narrow-leaved Eveweed.
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† even.3
Criminals' slang and regional. Obsolete.
A roost for hens. Also in plural in same sense.
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1725 New Canting Dict. Eves, Hen-Roosts.
1846 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Eve, a hen-roost. Somerset.
1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang, Jargon & Cant I. 343/1 Eaves (American thieves), a hen-roost.
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† evev.1
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To be the eve (eve n.2 2a) of (a specified day); to immediately precede.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)]
forecomea1300
precede?a1425
fore-run1590
usher1607
eve1638
to usher in1641
surmounta1647
antevene1655
antedate1664
antecedea1676
anticipate1855
precourse1888
predate1889
precursea1892
1638 W. Berkeley Lost Lady i. 11 The night that Eve's the day of Marriage.
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evev.2
/iːv/, U.S. /iv/ English regional (south-western) and Welsh English (Gower).
intransitive. Of a stone wall or floor: to become moist or damp; to exude moisture.
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the world > matter > liquid > moisture or humidity > be or become humid [verb (intransitive)] > fall or be deposited as condensed vapour > on or of a surface
eve1777
steam1892
1777–8 R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 145 [Gloucestershire] To Eave,..to sweat as stones seem to do in moist weather.
1846 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Eve, to become damp. West.
1863 W. Barnes Gram. & Gloss. Dorset Dial. 55 We shall ha' rain: the stwones do eve.
1880 T. Q. Couch E. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall (at cited word) A stone floor is said to eve before wet weather.
1891 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 23 130 It will rain because the stones are eaving.
a1955 H. M. Tucker My Gower (1957) 132 Zo zoon as..th'casey (stone paving) doth eve (sweat) me ol' j'ints be on th'rack.
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v.21777- to candle over
- to cane it
- to canoe it
- to cant it
- to cant off
- to cant over
- to cant with
- to cantle out
- to cantonize it
- to cantonize out
- to cap a proverb
- to cap a quotation
- to cap about
- to cap all
- to cap an anecdote
- to cap it
- to cap the climax
- to cap the hock
- to cap verses
- to capacity
- to card a rest
- to card away
- to card up
- to care a fig, or fig's end for
- to care a twopenny damn