Dictionary entry

Evident

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ev″i‐dent (?), a. [F. évinent, l. evidens, -entis; e out + videns, p. pr. of videre to see. See Vision.] Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident.

Your honor and your goodness is so evident. Shak.

And in our faces evident the signs

Of foul concupiscence. Milton.

Syn. — Manifest; plain; clear; obvious; visible; apparent; conclusive; indubitable; palpable; notorious. See Manifest.