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Definition of Evanescing
1. evanesce [v] - See also: evanesce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Evanescing
Literary usage of Evanescing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pyrology: Or Fire Chemistry; a Science Interesting to the General by William Alexander Ross (1875)
"(2) Vesiculated [1] and breathed on the vesicle; a dull tarnish, like breath on
glass, not evanescing by spirit-lamp flame. ..."
2. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"Radial sculpture confined to the extreme margin, evanescing away from it with
conspicuous abruptness. a. Outline ovate or elliptical, rarely arcuate. ..."
3. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"Radial sculpture confined to the extreme margin, evanescing away from it with
conspicuous abruptness. a. ..."
4. The Fluxional Calculus: An Elementary Treatise by Thomas Jephson (1826)
"In order to ascertain the limiting ratio of evanescing quantities, he constructs
finite magnitudes which are always in the same ratio as the ..."
5. Psychology as a Natural Science Applied to the Solution of Occult Psychic by Charles Gadlove Raue (1889)
"Because these impressions are formed on an evanescing basis, ... This evanescing
basis or transient condition consists in the preponderating excitation of ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"It is a sufficient proof of the extreme delicacy of this element, evanescing
before any but the most sympathetic vision, that it has so seldom been employed ..."
7. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1899)
"Much less can the perceptual central body of the visual expanse be itself the
real subject conditioning the evanescing time-stream of consciousness. ..."
8. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1818)
"... prejudices, and opinions, which are fast evanescing from public view, — and
to give substance and solidity to that which is in itself so volatile, ..."
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