Obs. [ad. Fr. éventer, OF. esventer, f. es- :—L. ex- + vent wind; cf. AVENT.] a. trans. To expose to the air; hence, to cool. b. intr. for refl. To vent itself, find a vent.
1559. Baldwin, in Mirr. Mag., Clifford, viii. To euent the heat that had me nye vndoen.
1603. B. Jonson, K. Jas’. Entertainm. Coronat., Lest the fervour of so pure a flame As this my city bears, might lose the name Without the apt eventing of her heat. Ibid. (1609), Case is altered, V. iii. The place from whence that scalding sigh evented.
1606. Chapman, Hero & Leander, III. Till he [Phœbus] find oppos’d A loose and rorid vapour that is fit T’ event his searching beams.
