Eve or Even

Eve or Even
The day preceding a festival, giving an opportunity for preparation for the festival.

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  • Eve, or Even —    The day before a Festival, as Christmas Eve, Easter Even, and designed to be a preparation for the due observance of the Festival it precedes. By rubric it is provided that the Collect appointed for any Sunday or other Feast may be used at the …   American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  • Even language — language name=Even nativename=эвэды торэн (eved i toren) states=Russia region=Russian Far East speakers=7,168 familycolor=Altaic fam1=Altaic [Gordon, 2005 ( [http://www.ethnologue.com/show family.asp?subid=90009 Altaic] )] (controversial)… …   Wikipedia

  • even — {{11}}even (adj.) O.E. efen level, also equal, like; calm, harmonious; quite, fully; namely, from P.Gmc. *ebnaz (Cf. O.S. eban, O.Fris. even level, plain, smooth, Du. even, O.H.G. eban, Ger. eben, O.N. jafn, Dan. jævn, Goth. ibns). Etymologists… …   Etymology dictionary

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  • Eve Dallas — is the main character of the In Death series, a futuristic (circa 2058 AD) romance mystery series by J.D. Robb, pseudonym for NY Times best selling author Nora Roberts. Character Basis Eve was found in an alley in Dallas, Texas, when she was… …   Wikipedia

  • Eve of Destiny — is a Japanese industrial rock band founded in 1999 by Haruhiko Ash (formerly of punk rock / hard rock band The Zolge). For a long time, Eve of Destiny was a solo project of Ash, with not much real activity, but this changed in 2002, after… …   Wikipedia

  • Eve of a Feast — • In the first ages, during the night before every feast, a vigil was kept. In the evening the faithful assembled in the place or church where the feast was to be celebrated and prepared themselves by prayers, readings from Holy Writ (now the… …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Eve Langley — (* 1. September 1908; † Juni 1974), mit bürgerlichem Namen Ethel Jane Langley, war eine australische Schriftstellerin. Ihre Romane gehören zu jenem Traditionsstrang australischer Schriftstellerinnen, die die Konflikte der weiblichen Künstlerinnen …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Even — E ven ([=e]v n) n. [OE. eve, even, efen, [ae]fen. AS. [=ae]fen; akin to OS. [=a]band, OFries, [=a]vend, D. avond, OHG. [=a]band, Icel. aptan, Sw. afton, Dan. aften; of unknown origin. Cf. {Eve}, {Evening}.] Evening. See {Eve}, n. 1. [Poetic.]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Eve (cigarette) — Eve Cigarettes, manufactured in the U.S.A. and Germany, are a product of the Liggett Group, the smallest of the major U.S. tobacco companies. They were introduced in 1971 as competition for rival Philip Morris corporation s Virginia Slims, a… …   Wikipedia

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