evincible

[Eng. evinc(e); -able.] That may or can be proved or demonstrated; demonstrable; capable of proof. "Implanted instincts in brutes are in themselves highly reasonable and useful to their ends, and evincible by true reason to be such."-Hale: Origin of Mankind, ě-vin'-çi-bly, adv. [Eng. evincib(le); -ly.] In p. 62. e-vin-çive, a. [Eng. evinc(e); -ive.] Tending or calculated to prove or demonstrate. (1) Crabb thus discriminates between evil , harm , and misfortune: " Evil in its limited application is taken for evils of the greatest magnitude; it is that which is evil without any mitigation or qualification of circumstances. The misfortune is a minor evil ; it depends upon the opinion and circumstances of the individual; what is a misfortune in one respect may be the contrary in another. In one respect, therefore, the misfortune is but a partial evil : of evil it is likewise observable, that it has no respect to the sufferer as a moral agent; but misfortune is used in regard to such things as are controllable or otherwise by human foresight. The a manner to prove or force conviction. evil which befalls a man is opposed only to the good which he in general experiences; but the misfortune is opposed to the good fortune or the prudence of the individual. Sickne is an evil , let it be endured or caused by whatever circumstances it may; it is a misfortune for an individual to come in the way of having this evil brought on himself: his own relative condition in the scale of being is here referred to. The harm and mischief are species of minor evils ; the former of which is much le specific than the latter, both in the nature and the cause of the evil . A person takes harm from circumstances that are not known; the mischief is done to him from some positive and immediate circumstance. Evil and misfortune respect persons only as the objects: harm and mischief are said of inanimate things as the object." ( Crabb : Eng . Synon.) (2) For the difference between evil and bad , see BAD. Obvious compounds: Evil - affected ( Acts xiv. 2); evil-boding, evil - favored ( Bacon ), with its derivative evil - favoredne ( Deut . xvii. 1); evil-minded (Dryden); evil-omened, evil-starred (Tennyson: Locksley Hall , 157), .