evanish

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English

Etymology

From Middle English , from Old French esvanir, compare Latin evanescere. See evanesce, vanish.

Verb

evanish (third-person singular simple present evanishes, present participle evanishing, simple past and past participle evanished)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To vanish.
    • 1790, Robert Burns, Tam o'Shanter:
      Or like the rainbow's lovely form,
      Evanishing amid the storm.
    • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. , volume II, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 271:
      So does hope spring from the burning passions, which consume their home and themselves—so does it wander through the future, making its own charmed path—and so does it evanish away: lost in the horizon, it grows at last too faint for outline.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for evanish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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