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or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement. Faith is . . . the evidence of things not seen. Heb. xi. 1. O glorious trial of exceeding love Illustrious evidence, example high. Milton.…

One whi gives evidence.

Want of evidence; obscurity. [Obs.] Barrow.

The quality or state of being self-evident. Locke.

epresents two parts of the original substance. Abstract of title (Law), an epitome of the evidences of ownership.

A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand. You can produce acquittances For such a sum, from special officers. Shak.

Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence. H. Spencer.

The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.

A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.

to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious. "Adscititious evidence." Bowring. -- Ad`sci*ti"tious*ly, adv.

d (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.

The science which treats of the nature of truth and evidence. Sir W. Hamilton.

From another source; from elsewhere; as, a case proved aliunde; evidence aliunde.

That branch of theology which defends the Holy Scriptures, and sets forth the evidence of their divine authority.

harged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States. Burrill. Bo…

Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family. [Rarely used in sing.] Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press. Lamb.

Proof; evidence. [Obs.] There is.. no more palpable and convincing argument of the existence of a Deity. Ray. Why, then, is it made a badge of wit and an argument of parts for a man to commence atheist, and to cast off all belief of providence, all awe and reverence for religion South.

Money or other valuable thing given to evidence a contract; a pledge or earnest.

Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.