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Evaporation is properly the fetting a Liquor over a gentle Heat, to carry oft' the molt fluid and volatile Parts, Without leffenittg the Quantity of the other Matter the Liquor is i:\ ;.<rcgnaied withal.
Evator&tion differs from Exhalation, in 'that the former is practiced en raoilt Things, and the latter on dry. Sec Exhalation.
To Evaporate ad Cuticulam, to a Pellicle. See Cuti- cula and Pellicle.
EVATES a Branch, or Division of our old Philosophers the Druids. See Druid.
Strabo diitiibutes the Phiiofophers among the Sritains and Gauls, into three Sects. B^Jb/, Bards, Ova>im->Evates y and Afvtfeuj Druids. He adds, that the Sardi were Poets and Muficians ; the Evates, Priefts and Naturaliits ; and the "Druids, Moralitts as well as Naturalifts.
But Mareellinns, Lib. 15. Voffius Philof. Lect. I. 2. and Jiorn'ms Hift. Philofopb. 1. 2. c. 12. reduce 'em all to two Sects, viz. Sardi and c JJruides.
And, laftly; Qejar, lib. 6. comprehends 'em all under the Name of 2)ruids._
The Evates, or Fates, of Strabo, might probably be what other Authors, and particularly Ammian. Marcellin. call? Eubages. Bat M. louche, in his Htft. de Provence, L II. e. 2. diftingaifhes between 'em. The Vates, he fays, were fitch as took Care of the Sacrifices, and other Cere- monies of Religion; and the Ewbages, thofe who fpent th< Time in the Search and Contemplation of the great Myil riesof Nature. SeeEusAGES.
I UBAGESj an Order ot Prieus, or Philofophers, among the ancient Cet>t£ or Gauls.
Charter takes the Eubages to be the fame with the fDmids, and Saronidte of tDiodorus: Others take the lr.rb.g~s to be thofe whom Strabo L. IV. p. 197. calls OvV-e;, Evates, or l^ates: On which Principle there were Room to conjecture, that the Word fhould be wrote OwajW* j it being eafy to nuibake a r for a T. See
EVATES.
Be this lis it will, the Eubages appear to have been dif- ferent from the 'Druids. See what has been ihewn under the Article Dp.uid.
EUCHARIST, Eitchariflia, the Sacrament of the Sup- per; cr a Communication of the Body and Blood of Chnjl, under the Species, or Figures ot Bread and Wine. See Communion, Sacrament, Species, Transubstantia-
!TION, CONSUBST ANTI ATION, fifc.
The Word in its Original Greek, 'Ev%aei&a, ] literally im- ports Thanksgiving ; being form'd of su, bene, well, and yewA , gratia, Thanks.
EUCHiTES, orEuCHETES, a Seel of ancient Hereticks, thus call'd, by reafon theypray'd without ceafing; imagining that Prayer alone was fufHcient to fave 'em. See Prayer.
Their great Foundation, were thofe Words of St. Paul, Epift. I. to the 1'hejfalon. C. 5. V. 17. Pray ■-without ceafing*
The Word is form'd of the Greek, Eujji, Prayer ; whence Ei/p^Teu, the fame with the Latin Precatores, Prayers. They were alfo call'd Enthajiafts and Mejfalians. See Enthusiast.
St. Cyril of Alexandria, in one of his Letters, takes Occafion to cenfiire certain Monks in Egypt, who, under Pretence of refigning 'emfelves wholly to Prayer, led a lazy, fcandalous Life The Orientals, however, lay a further Charge on the Euchites, or MeJfaUanS. See Messa- jlians.
EUCKOLOGUS, Euchologue, a Greek Term, fig- nifying, literally, a 2)ijcourfe on Prayers; being form'd of tvy$j Prayers, and Koy'&y 2)ifcourfe.
The Eucloologus is properly the Greek Ritual, wherein is prefcribed the Order and Manner of every Thing relating to the Order and Admimilration of their Ceremonies, Sacraments, Ordinations, Be.
Fa. Gear has given us an Edition of the Greek Eucho- logue in Greek aa&Zatin, with Notes, at Paris.
EUCHRASY, from sy, bene, good, and x& m h Tempe- ramentum, Conftitution, is an agreeable, well proportion'd Mixture of Qualities; whereby a Body is faid to be in good Order, that is, in a good State of Health. See Tem- perament.
EUDOXIANS, a Party, or Seel of Hereticks, of the VJtb Century 5 denominated from their Leader Eudoxius, Patriarch of Alexandria and Constantinople, a great De- fender of the Avian Doctrine.
The Eudoxians, then, adhered to the Errors of the Ariam and Ennomians; maintaining, that the Son was created our of Nothing; that he had a Will diftincT: and different from that of the Father, Be. Sec Arians and Eunomian:;.
EVECTION, is ufed by fioie APcronomers for the Zi- brat ion of the Moon. See Libration.
EVEN Number, is that which may be divided into two equal Parts, or Moieties. See Number.
EVENLY even Number, is which is exactly divifible by an Even Number taken an Even Number of Times - fuch is 32; fince divifible by eight, taken four Times ? Evenly odd, is that which an Even Number meafures by an Odd one; as 30, which is meafured by 6, taken five Times.
EVERGETES, a Greek Term, fignifying Senefa&or - being form'd of e£, bene, well, and ep^f, opus, Work.
It is ftill retain'd in our Language, by Way of Addi- tion, or Epithet, given to feveral Princes, or Kings of Syria and Egypt, who fucceeded Alexander. Thus we fay, Ptolomy Evergetes King of Egypt ; Antiochus Ever- getes King of Syria afcended the Throne 139 Years before Cbrift.
EVER-GREENS, or Perennials, fuch Plants as con- tinue their Verdure, Leaves, Be. all the Year. See Plant, fife
Of thefe, our Gardeners reckon twelve, fit for EngUJh Air, viz. the Alaternus, Arbutus, Say-Tree, Sox-Tree, Holley, Juniper, Laurus turns, Phyliret, Pyracantha, or Ever-green "Thorn, Italian green Privet, and the Te-iv-Tree.
EVIDENCE, a Quality in Things whereby they become vifible and apparent to the Eyes, either ot the Body, or the Mind. See Knowledge.
The Schoolmen diftinguifh Evidence, into formal and objective.
Formal Evidence, is the Act of the Intellect, confider'd as clear and diftincT:.
Objective Evidence, confiils in the Clearness and Per- fpicuity of the Object; or it is the Object it fcli\ fo con- ftituted, as that it may be clearly and diftinftly known.
Others divide Evidence into Moral, Phyfical, and Me- taphyfical.
A Thing is faid to be morally Evident, fo far as I have a diiHnct Notion, or Knowledge thereof, by unex- ceptionable Witntfles. Phyfically, fo far as natural Senfe and Reafon pointing out any Thing, convinces one there- of. Met afhyfic ally, when I enter fo fully and clearly inta the EtTence of any Thing, that nothing can be clearer.
Evidence, is the eflential and infallible Character, or Criterion of Truth; and is that, in Effect, which with us conftitutes Truth. See Truth.
If Evidence fhould be found in Propofitions that are falfe, we fhou'd be compell'd into Error; fince the AlTent we give to Evidence is neceffary. Whence wou'd follow this impious Pofition, that God whs made us, is the Au- thor of our Errors, as he has conftiruted us fo, as to put us under a Neceflity of falling into 'em. See Error.
It may be added, that as we neciflarily love Truth, and hate Error, it feems inccufiilent with the Nature of a beneficent Being, to form us with a Love of what we could not obtain, or not know whether we did obtain it or not: Beiide that, if we Jhould err in Things that are Evident, as well as in thofe that are not fo, we mould fometimes find Contradictions in Evident Propofitions, as we commonly do in Things that are oblcure.
Evidence therefore muit be alio w'd the Mark of Truth ; and thofe Things rauft be allow'd true, which carry with 'cm fuch a Degree of Evidence, as obliges us to aflent to 'em. Whatever we fee Evidently agreeable to the Things whereof we fpeak, that we rauft acknowledge to be true. See Faith, Opinion, Verisimilitude, Be. The Epictireans allow of no other Evidence but that of Senfe ; or that arifing from Senfe, (it being a funda- mental with them, that Senfe is the firft and primary Criterion of all Truth) See Falshood and Fallacy.
By Evidence of Senfe, they mean that Species, or Image, exhibited by the Sen(e, or Phantafie; which, when all Impediments to a juit judging, as Diflance, Motion, Medium, &c. being removed, cannot be contradicted, or gain-fay 'd. Wherefore, the Quefti on being put, whether or no a Thing be fuch as it appears ; the Anfwer is not to be given, till it have been tried and examined all the Ways, and by ail the Senfes that it can be an Object of. See Sense, Criterion, Epicureans, Be.
Evidence, in Law, is any Proof, be it Teftimony of Men, Records, or Writings: It is thus call'd, beeaufe the Point in Iffue is hereby made Evident to the Jury. See Testimony, Witness, Be.
Sir Tho. Smith reftrains Evidence to authentic Writings of Contracts, written, feal'd, and deliver'd. -JJe Rep, A;?gl. Lib. II.
EVIL, Malum, in Ethicks, a Privation, or Abfrnce of fome proper, or neceffary Good; or ibme due Meafuie, or Degree thereof. See Good.
The Schoolmen deny, that any thing is every w: y Evil; and retrain all Evil, to be only fo, quoad hoc;
