evene

Etymology

From Latin ēveniō (“happen, fall out, come out”), from ē (“out of, from”) (short form of ex) + veniō (“come”).

Verb

evene (third-person singular simple present evenes, present participle evening, simple past and past participle evened)

1. (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.

References

• “evene” in John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• eeven