EVIL
E'VIL, adjective e'vl. [Heb. to be unjust or injurious, to defraud.]1. Having bad qualities of a natural kind; mischievous; having qualities which tend to injury, or to produce ...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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EVIL-AFFECTED
EVIL-AFFECT'ED, adjective Not well disposed; unkind; now ill-affected.
EVIL-FAVORED
EVIL-FA'VORED, adjective [evil and favor.] Having a bad countenance or external appearance; ill-favored.
EVIL-FAVOREDNESS
EVIL-FA'VOREDNESS, noun Deformity.
EVIL-MINDED
EVIL-MINDED, adjective [evil and mind.] Having evil dispositions or intentions; disposed to mischief or sin; malicious; malignant; wicked. Slanderous reports are propagated by e...
EVILDOER
EVILDO'ER, noun [evil and doer, from do.] One who does evil; one who commits sin, crime, or any moral wrong.They speak evil against you as evildoers. l Pet.2.
EVILEYED
E'VILEYED, adjective [evil and eye.] Looking with an evil eye, or with envy, jealousy or bad design.
EVILLY
E'VILLY, adverb Not well. [Little used.]
EVILNESS
E'VILNESS, noun Badness; viciousness; malignity; as evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.
EVILSPEAKING
EVILSPE'AKING, noun [evil and speak.] Slander; defamation; calumny; censoriousness. 1 Peter 2:1.
EVILWISHING
EVILWISH'ING, adjective [evil and wish.] Wishing harm to; as an evilwishing mind.
EVILWORKER
EVILWORK'ER, noun [evil and work.] One who does wickedness. Philippians 3:1.
EVINCE
EVINCE, verb transitive evins'. [Latin evinco, to vanquish, to prove or show; e and vinco, to conquer.]1. To show in a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to man...
EVINCED
EVIN'CED, participle passive Made evident; proved.
EVINCIBLE
EVIN'CIBLE, adjective Capable of proof; demonstrable.
EVINCIBLY
EVIN'CIBLY, adverb In a manner to demonstrate, or force conviction.
EVINCIVE
EVIN'CIVE, adjective Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate.
EVIRATE
E'VIRATE, verb transitive [Latin vir. eviratus.] To emasculate. [Not in use.]
EVISCERATE
EVIS'CERATE, verb transitive [Latin eviscero; e and viscera, the bowels.]To embowel or disembowel; to take out the entrails; to search the bowels.
EVISCERATED
EVIS'CERATED, participle passive Deprived of the bowels.
EVISCERATING
EVIS'CERATING, participle present tense Disemboweling.
EVITABLE
EV'ITABLE, adjective [Latin evitabilis.] See Evitate.] That may be shunned; avoidable. [Little used.]
EVITATE
EV'ITATE, verb transitive [Latin evito; e and vito, from the root of void, wide.]To shun; to avoid; to escape. [Little used.]
EVITATION
EVITA'TION, noun An avoiding; a shunning. [Little used.]
EVITE
EVI'TE, verb transitive [Latin evito.] To shun. [Not used.]
EVOCATE
EV'OCATEEVOCA'TION, noun A calling forth; a calling or bringing fromconcealment.1. A calling from one tribunal to another.2. Among the Romans, a calling on the gods of a besiege...
EVOCATION
EVOCA'TION, n. A calling forth; a calling or bringing fromconcealment.1. A calling from one tribunal to another.2. Among the Romans, a calling on the gods of a besieged city to ...