evene
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ēveniō (“happen, fall out, come out”), from ē (“out of, from”) (short form of ex) + veniō (“come”).
Verb
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- (obsolete) To occur; to happen; to come to pass.
- 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two).
- What would evene, if an eagle that is carried by the course of the wind, should let a stone fall from its talons.
- 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two).
Synonyms
- come to pass, occur, transpire; See also Thesaurus:happen
Related terms
References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “evene”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.