evict: [15] Ultimately, evict and evince [17] are the same word, although they have diverged considerably over the centuries. Both come from Latin ēvincere, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and vincere (source of English victory). This originally meant ‘defeat, conquer’, but a whole range of secondary legal senses developed: ‘recover something by defeating an opponent in a legal action’; ‘eject by judicial process’; and ‘prove by legal argument’.
Both evict (acquired from the Latin past participle ēvictus) and evince have in the past been used for ‘conquer’ and ‘prove’, and it was not until the 18th century that they settled into their present meanings. => evince, victory
evict (v.)
mid-15c., "recover (property) by judicial means," from Latin evictus, past participle of evincere "overcome and expel, conquer, subdue, vanquish; prevail over; supplant," from assimilated form of ex- "out," or perhaps here merely intensive (see ex-) + vincere "conquer" (see victor). Sense of "expel by legal process" first recorded in English 1530s, from a post-classical sense of the Latin word. Related: Evicted; evicting. Compare evince.
双语例句
1. They had to evict some gypsies today and I had to go and fence the area off.
他们今天必须驱逐一些吉普赛人，我得去把那个区域圈起来。
来自柯林斯例句
2. They had employed heavies to evict shop squatters from neighbouring sites.
他们雇了一些彪形大汉，将附近私自占点的商贩都赶走了。
来自辞典例句
3. The landlord will evict him or raise his rent.
地主就会收回租地或抬高地租.
来自辞典例句
4. The lessor can evict the lessee for failure to pay rent.
出租人可驱逐不付租金的承租人.
来自辞典例句
5. An error occurred attempting to evict this computer from the sponsor cluster.
