Definition of Evde
E*vade" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Evaded; p. pr. & vb. n..
Evading.] [L. evadere, evasum, e out +
vadere to go, walk: cf. F. s'évader. See Wade.]
To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge,
address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to
evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the
force of an argument.
The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of
evading the Christian miracles.
Trench.
E*vade", v. t. 1.
To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.
"Evading from perils." Bacon.
Unarmed they might
Have easily, as spirits evaded swift
By quick contraction or remove. Milton.
2. To attempt to escape; to practice artifice
or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
The ministers of God are not to evade and take
refuge any of these . . . ways. South.
Syn. -- To equivocate; shuffle. See Prevaricate.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument.
The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles. — Trench.
- To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
Evading from perils. — Bacon.
Unarmed they might / Have easily, as spirits evaded swift / By quick contraction or remove. — Milton.
- To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these ... ways. — South.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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