Word Meanings - EVANESCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To vanish away; to because dissipated and disappear, like vapor. I believe him to have evanesced or evaporated. De Quincey.

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• DISAPPEARING
  p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear. Disappearing carriage , a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing
• VAPORATE
  To emit vapor; to evaporate.
• EVAPORATION
  See VAPORIZATION (more info) 1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. 2.
• DISSIPATIVE
  Tending to dissipate. Dissipative system , an assumed system of matter and motions in which forces of friction and resistances of other kinds are introduced without regard to the heat or other molecular actions which they generate; -- opposed to
• VAPORY
  1. Full of vapors; vaporous. 2. Hypochondriacal; splenetic; peevish.
• EVAPORATOR
  An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.
• VAPORIFORM
  Existing in a vaporous form or state; as, steam is a vaporiform substance.
• EVANESCENCE
  The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plants or hopes. Rambler.
• DISAPPEARANCE
  The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison.
• DISSIPATED
  1. Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth." Johnson. 2. Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. A life irregular and dissipated. Johnson.
• EVAPORATIVE
  Pertaining to, or producing, evaporation; as, the evaporative process.
• VAPOR
  Any substance in the gaseous, or aëriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid. Note: The term vapor is sometimes used in a more extended sense, as identical with gas; and the difference between the two is not
• VANISHMENT
  A vanishing.
• VAPOROUS
  1. Having the form or nature of vapor. Holland. 2. Full of vapors or exhalations. Shak. The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys. Derham. 3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. Bacon. The food which is most vaporous and perspirable
• BELIEVE
  To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard
• VAPORATION
  The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation.
• VAPORIFIC
  Producing vapor; tending to pass, or to cause to pass, into vapor; thus, volatile fluids are vaporific; heat is a vaporific agent.
• EVANESCE
  To vanish away; to because dissipated and disappear, like vapor. I believe him to have evanesced or evaporated. De Quincey.
• VAPORIFEROUS
  Conveying or producing vapor.
• BELIEVER
  One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel. Thou didst open the Kingdom
• EVAPOROMETER
  An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time; an atmometer.
• UNBELIEVER
  1. One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic. 2. A disbeliever; especially, one who does not believe that the Bible is a divine revelation, and holds that Christ was neither a divine nor a supernatural person;