<B>evaluate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ated,</B> <B>-ating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to find out the value or the amount of; estimate the worth or importance of; appraise. <BR> <I>Ex. An expert will evaluate the old furniture you wish to sell. The expedition has now returned, and its members are beginning to evaluate and integrate the facts gathered in the field and at the base (E. F. Roots).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Mathematics.) to find a numerical expression for. </DL>
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<B>evaluation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of evaluating. <BR> <I>Ex. The detective began his evaluation of the evidence.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an estimated value; valuation. </DL>
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<B>evaluative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or capable of evaluation. <BR> <I>Ex. Mr. Priestley has written an evaluative account of Dickens' literary contribution that is sensible, just, and perceptively critical (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>evaluator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that evaluates. </DL>
<A NAME="evander">
<B>Evander, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Legend.) a son of Hermes, and founder of an Arcadian colony on the Palatine before the Trojan War. </DL>
<B>evanescence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a gradual disappearance; fading away; vanishing. <BR> <I>Ex. The gradual evanescence of dogmatic teaching (W. E. H. Lecky).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a tendency to disappear or fade away; inability to last long. <BR> <I>Ex. This evanescence and lubricity of all objects ... lets them slip through our fingers (Emerson).</I> </DL>
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<B>evanescent, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> gradually disappearing; soon passing away; vanishing. <BR> <I>Ex. the evanescent beauty of the sunset.</I> (SYN) transitory, ephemeral. </DL>
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<B>evang.</B> or <B>Evang.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> evangelical. </DL>
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<B>evangel</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the Gospel; the good news of the saving of mankind through Christ (in Christian belief). <DD><B> 2. </B>any good news. <BR> <I>Ex. We wait for thy coming, sweet Wind of the South ... For the yearly evangel thou bearest from God (John Greenleaf Whittier).</I> </DL>
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<B>evangel</B> (2), noun. =evangelist.</DL>
<A NAME="evangel">
<B>Evangel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of the four Gospels; Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. </DL>
<A NAME="evangelic">
<B>evangelic, </B>adjective. =evangelical.</DL>
<A NAME="evangelical">
<B>evangelical, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or according to the four Gospels or the New Testament. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with the Protestant churches that emphasize Christ's atonement and man's salvation by faith as the most important parts of Christianity. Methodists and Baptists are evangelical; Unitarians and Universalists are not. <DD><B> 3. </B>having to do with a movement in Protestantism during the 1700's and 1800's that placed emphasis on the need for deep personal religious experience, especially a realization of personal sin and the approach to God through Christ. <DD><B> 4. </B><B>=evangelistic.</B> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person who maintains evangelical doctrines; Protestant. <DD><B> 2. </B>a member of an evangelical church or party, especially a low churchman in the Church of England. <BR> <I>Ex. At his theological college, Ridley Hall, Cambridge, he was thought a strong "evangelical" (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> adv. <B>evangelically.</B> noun <B>evangelicalness.</B> </DL>
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<B>Evangelical, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>designating those Protestant churches deriving from Lutheranism rather than Calvinism (contrasted with <I>Reformed</I>). <DD><B> 2. </B>(in some parts of Europe) Protestant. </DL>
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<B>Evangelical Alliance,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an association of Christians belonging to the Evangelical denominations, to promote more effective cooperation in Christian work. </DL>
<A NAME="evangelicalism">
<B>evangelicalism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the doctrines of an evangelical church. <DD><B> 2. </B>adherence to such doctrines. </DL>
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<B>Evangelical United Brethren,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a Protestant church formed in 1946 in the United States by the merger of two churches which had been formed in the 1800's by German settlers in Pennsylvania and Maryland. In 1968 the Evangelical United Brethren united with the Methodist Church. </DL>
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<B>evangelicism, </B>noun. =evangelicalism.</DL>
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<B>Evangeline, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an idyllic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, based on the deportation of the Acadians by the British in 1755. </DL>
<B>evangelism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the preaching of the Gospel; earnest effort for the spread of the Gospel. <BR> <I>Ex. An aggressive program of evangelism has been undertaken in the postwar period (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>belief in the doctrines of an evangelical church or party; evangelicalism. <DD><B> 3. </B>the work of an evangelist. </DL>
<A NAME="evangelist">
<B>evangelist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a preacher of the Gospel. <DD><B> 2a. </B>a traveling preacher who stirs up religious feeling in a revival service or camp meeting. (SYN) revivalist. <DD><B> b. </B>a person who brings the Gospel to pagan peoples or nonbelievers; missionary. </DL>
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<B>Evangelist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the writer of one of the four Gospels; Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. <DD><B> 2. </B>(in the Mormon Church) a patriarch, one of the higher order of priests. </DL>
<A NAME="evangelistarion">
<B>evangelistarion, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ia.</B> =evangelistary.</DL>
<A NAME="evangelistarium">
<B>evangelistarium, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ia.</B> =evangelistary.</DL>
<A NAME="evangelistary">
<B>evangelistary, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a book containing passages from the Gospels, used at services in the Greek and Roman Catholic churches as part of the liturgy. <DD><B> 2. </B>a copy of the four Gospels. </DL>
<A NAME="evangelistic">
<B>evangelistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or by an evangelist or evangelists. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=evangelical </B>(def. 2). <DD><B> 3. </B>Sometimes, <B>Evangelistic.</B> of or having to do with the four Evangelists. adv. <B>evangelistically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="evangelization">
<B>evangelization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of evangelizing. </DL>
<A NAME="evangelize">
<B>evangelize, </B>verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to preach the Gospel to. <DD><B> 2. </B>to convert to Christianity by preaching. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to preach the Gospel; act as an evangelist. </DL>
<A NAME="evangelizer">
<B>evangelizer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who evangelizes. </DL>
<A NAME="evanish">
<B>evanish, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Poetic.) <DD><B> 1. </B>to vanish; disappear. <BR> <I>Ex. ... like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm (Robert Burns).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to cease to be; die. <BR> <I>Ex. and cares evanish, like a morning dream (Allan Ramsay).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="evanishment">
<B>evanishment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of vanishing; disappearance. </DL>
<A NAME="evansite">
<B>evansite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a hydrous phosphate of aluminum occurring in white reniform masses. </DL>
<A NAME="evaporability">
<B>evaporability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality of being evaporable. </DL>
<A NAME="evaporable">
<B>evaporable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be evaporated; volatile. </DL>
<A NAME="evaporate">
<B>evaporate, </B>verb, <B>-rated,</B> <B>-rating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to turn into vapor; change from a liquid or solid into a vapor. <BR> <I>Ex. Boiling water evaporates rapidly. Some solids, such as moth balls and dry ice, evaporate without melting.</I> (SYN) volatilize, vaporize. <DD><B> 2. </B>to give off moisture. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to vanish; disappear. <BR> <I>Ex. His good resolutions evaporated after New Year.</I> (SYN) dissipate. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to remove water or other liquid from, for example by heat, in order to dry or to reduce to a more concentrated state. <BR> <I>Ex. Heat is used to evaporate milk.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to cause to change from a liquid (or less often, solid) into a vapor; drive off in the form of vapor. <BR> <I>Ex. Heat evaporates water.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="evaporatedmilk">
<B>evaporated milk,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a thick, unsweetened, canned milk, prepared by evaporating some of the water from ordinary milk. </DL>
<A NAME="evaporation">
<B>evaporation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of changing a liquid or a solid into vapor; an evaporating. <BR> <I>Ex. Wet clothes on a line become dry by evaporation of the water in them.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the state of being changed into vapor. <DD><B> 3. </B>the removal of water or other liquid. <DD><B> 4a. </B>the product of the evaporating process. <DD><B> b. </B>the amount evaporated. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Figurative.) disappearance. </DL>
<A NAME="evaporative">
<B>evaporative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> causing or having to do with evaporation. <BR> <I>Ex. In climates where sweating for evaporative heatloss is unnecessary, dietary intake of salt is usually greatly in excess of human requirements (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="evaporator">
<B>evaporator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an apparatus for removing water or other liquid from a substance. <BR> <I>Ex. an evaporator for drying fruits.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="evaporimeter">
<B>evaporimeter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an instrument for measuring the quantity of a liquid evaporated in a given time. </DL>
<A NAME="evaporite">
<B>evaporite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a sedimentary deposit formed as a result of the evaporation of seawater. <BR> <I>Ex. The rich Middle East and Texan oil fields are closely associated with formations bearing thick deposits of salt and related evaporites (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="evaporograph">
<B>evaporograph, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a device for taking crude pictures in darkness, by means of focusing infrared radiation on a heat-sensitive film of oil, spread on a plastic sheet. It is thought to have possible military use. </DL>
