Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Evident

Evident , adjective

[French évinent, l. evidens, -entis; e out + videns, present participle of videre to see. See Vision.]

Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident.
Your honor and your goodness is so evident. — Shakespeare
And in our faces evident the signs Of foul concupiscence. — Milton