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Word Meanings - EVANESCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys. So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars. Hawthorne. 2. Vanishing from notice; imperceptible. The difference between right and wrong,

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1. Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys. So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars. Hawthorne. 2. Vanishing from notice; imperceptible. The difference between right and wrong, is some petty cases, is almost evanescent. Wollaston.

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  • PASS
    passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to 1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind
  • FUGITIVELY
    In a fugitive manner.
  • PASSOVER
    A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb. The sacrifice offered at
  • PASSUS
    A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.
  • PASSIBILITY
    The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility. Hakewill.
  • PASSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
  • PASSIVE FLIGHT
    Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
  • BRIEFLY
    Concisely; in few words.
  • FLEET-FOOT
    Swift of foot. Shak.
  • PASSENGER MILE
    A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.
  • PASSIFLORA
    A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreæ, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.
  • FLEETINGLY
    In a fleeting manner; swiftly.
  • FLEETING
    Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments. Syn. -- Evanescent; ephemeral. See Transient.
  • PASSEGARDE
    A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor.
  • FLEET
    To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; - - said of a cable or hawser. (more info) vlieten to flow, OS. fliotan, OHG. fliozzan, G. fliessen, Icel. fljota to float, flow, Sw. flyta, D. flyde, L. pluere to rain, Gr. plu to swim,
  • FUGACIOUSNESS
    Fugacity.
  • FLEETEN
    Fleeted or skimmed milk. Fleeten face, a face of the color of fleeten, i. e., blanched; hence, a coward. "You know where you are, you fleeten face." Beau. & Fl.
  • PASSERINE
    Of or pertaining to the Passeres. The columbine, gallinaceous, and passerine tribes people the fruit trees. Sydney Smith.
  • PASSIBLE
    Susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions from external agents. Apolinarius, which held even deity itself passible. Hooker.
  • PASSAGEWAY
    A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • CONTEMPORARY
    1. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe. Strype. 2. Of the same age; coeval. A grove born with himself he sees,
  • SURPASS
    To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip.
  • SEA BRIEF
    See LETTER
  • OUTPASSION
    To exceed in passion.
  • INCOMPASSIONATE
    Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
  • REPASS
    To pass again; to pass or travel over in the opposite direction; to pass a second time; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea.
  • SURPASSING
    Eminently excellent; exceeding others. "With surpassing glory crowned." Milton. -- Sur*pass"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pass"ing*ness, n.
  • IMPASSIVE
    Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
  • IMPASSABLE
    Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf. Milton. -- Im*pass"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*pass"a*bly, adv.
  • UNPASSABLE
    Impassable. E. A. Freeman. -- Un*pass"a*ble*ness, n. Evelyn.

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