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[Eng. every, and thing.] 1. One and all of the things making up a whole. 2. Of the highest importance. "For, in the estimation of the greater part of that brilliant crowd, nations were nothing and princes every thing."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xxv. ěv-e-ry-whêre, * ev-er-i-hwar, *eav-er-1hwer, adv . [Eng. ever (A. S. œfre ); Mid. Eng. ihwar (A.S. gehwær ) =everywhere.) In every place, in all places. IMG:content-1198.png:[blocks in formation] *ē-vi-brāte, v. i. [Lat. evibratus , pa. par. of evibro to set in motion.] To vibrate, to shake. [VIBRATE.] ě-vict', v . t . [Lat. evict us , pa. par. of evinco =to conquer, to overcome, to demonstrate: e=out, fully, and rinco to conquer.] *1. To prove, to evince, to demonstrate. "This nervous fluid has never been discovered in live animals by the senses, however a isted; nor its nece ity evicted by any cogent experiment."-Cheyne. *2. To take away or recover by proce of law. "His lands were evicted from him."- King James. 3. To dispo e of by legal proce ; to expel or Aject from lands or tenements by law. of "The law of England would speedily evict them out their po e ion, and therefore they held it the best policy to cast off the yoke of English law."- Davies : On Ireland. distinguished from axioms or intuitions. Evidence is of two kinds, demonstrative and probable. Demonstrative evidence is of such a character that no person of competent intellect can fail to see that the conclusion is nece arily involved in the premises. Mathematics rests on demonstrative evidence. All the propositions of Euclid are simply deductions from the definitions, axioms being a umed and postulates granted. But in every matter involving the establishment of a concrete fact bearing on human conduct, demonstrative evidence is not obtainable, and the mind must content itself with probable evidence. Even in mathematics the premises are not concrete facts, but abstract hypotheses. Probable evidence is as if one held a delicate balance in the hand, casting into one scale every atom of evidence making for a proposition, and into the other all that could be adduced against it. According as the one or the other scale pre ponderates the proposition is accepted or rejected. Probable evidence may be of all conceivable degrees, from the faintest presumption to almost perfect certainty. For a treatment of the subject, see the Introduction to Butler's Analogy and J. S. Mill's Logic . allegations in i ue between parties. The following 2. Law : Proof, either written or unwritten, of are the leading rules of procedure: (1) The sole object and end of evidence being to ascertain the several disputed points or facts in i ue, no irrelevant evidence should be admitted. (2) The point in i ue is to bo proved by the party who a erts the affirmative. (3) Hearsay evidence is not admitted. Legal evidence is sometimes divided into direct and circumstantial. In courts of law parole evidence, that is, evidence by word of mouth, is that which is adopted, while in investigations in equity written evidence by affidavit is required. Another division of evidence is into primary and secondary. The production of a letter is primary evidence; the effort to prove what the contents of a lost document were is secondary evidence. ( Wharton .) 3. Apologetics: The evidences for the genuinene and authenticity of Scripture are external, internal, and collateral. The external evidences are those which tend to prove, on the testimony of other writers, that the books were written by the persons to whom threy are attributed. The internal evidence is the evidence afforded by reading the books themselves, and noting to what extent their style, subject-matter, and moral and spiritual tone afford evidence in their own favor. The collateral evidences are those brought from various sources to supplement the other two. Crabb thus discriminates between evidence, proof , and testimony: "The evidence is whatever makes evident ; the testimony is that which is derived from an individual-namely, testis , the witne . Where the evidence of our own senses concurs with the testimony of others we can have no grounds for withholding our a ent to the truth of an a ertion; but when these are at variance, it may be prudent to pause. The evidence may comprehend the testimony of many; the testimony is confined to the evidence of one. The evidence serves to The evidence and inform and illustrate; the testimony serves to confirm and corroborate: we may give evidence exclusively with regard to things; but we bear testimony with regard to persons. proof are both signs of something existing: the evi dence is an evident sign; the proof is positive: the evidence appeals to the understanding; the proof to the senses: the evidence produces conviction or a moral certainty; the proof produces satisfaction or a physical certainty. The evidence is applied to that which is moral or intellectual; the proof is employed mostly for facts or physical objects. The evidence is applied to that which is moral or intellectual; intellectual; the proof is employed mostly for facts or physical objects. The evidence may be internal, or lie in the thing itself; the proof is always external." ( Crabb : Eng . Synon .) evil ěv-I-dençe, v. t. [EVIDENCE, 8.] 1. To make evident, to show, to disclose, to dis cover. "Although the same truths be elicited and explicated by the contemplation of animals, yet they are more clearly evidenced in the contemplation of man."- Hale . Origin of Mankind. 2. To prove, to demonstrate, to evince, to make plain or clear. "To evidence this let us consider the judge in the three great qualifications of wisdom, justice, and power."Glanvill: Serm. viii.