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evanesce, v.|ɛvəˈnɛs|
[ad. L. ēvānescĕ-re, f. ē out + vānescĕre to vanish, f. vānus empty, insubstantial, vain. Cf. evanish.]
intr. To fade out of sight, ‘melt into thin air’, disappear; chiefly fig. Also in scientific use, To disappear, become effaced; said e.g. of markings or organs in plants, or of the edge of a polyhedron when two adjacent faces are made to rotate into one plane.
1822De Quincey Confess. (1862) 59 A single psychological discovery, therfore, caused my musical anticipations to evanesce. 1854Faber Growth in Holiness xxiii. (1872) 472 As soon as these spiritual favours are known they will evanesce. 1857Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. III. 366 The intermediate corolla having evanesced. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 77 This general notion..evanesces before the dialectic of Socrates. |