1541. R. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Chirurg. They haue but lytell blode, and theyr flesshe is largely euaporable.
1635. Person, Varieties, II. 51. Not all subtile humidity is evaporable, but that of water only.
a. 1691. Boyle, Effluviums, vi. Wks. 1772, III. 675. A far more evaporable and dissipable kind of bodies than minerals.
1758. Franklin, Wks. (1840), VI. 216. Drinking frequently of a thin evaporable liquor.
1831. Brewster, Optics, xii. 102. Placing a thick film of an evaporable fluid upon a clean plate of glass.
1881. Standard, 18 Nov., 5/3. The frightful holocaust … at Abergele … was due to an oil by no means evaporable.
