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elude, v.|ɪl(j)uːd|
[ad. L. ēlūdĕ-re, f. ē out + lūdĕre to play.]
†1.
a. To befool, delude. (Partly confused with illude.)
b. To baffle, disappoint. Obs.
1538Wriothesley Chron. (1875) I. 75 The people had bene eluded and caused to doe great idolatrie. 1594West Symbol. ii. §173 A witch or hagg is she which being eluded by a league made with the devil..thinketh, etc. 1656Milton Lett. State Wks. 1738 II. 196 If that hope fail 'em, eluded and frustrated..where at length to find a resting-place they know not.
†c. To wile away (tedium). Obs.
1660R. Coke Justice Vind. 12 Men.. seek company to divert themselves, so to elude the length of time.
2. To escape by dexterity or stratagem (a blow, attack, danger, or difficulty).
1634–46Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 141 Murderers, adulterers, &c., labours to elude discipline by fleeing from place to place. a1677Barrow Serm. II. xxxiii. (R.) The stroke of humane law may..often be..eluded by slight, by gift, by favour. 1715–20Pope Iliad iii. 444 The wary Trojan, bending from the blow Eludes the death. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 302 Difficulties which they rather had eluded than escaped, meet them again in their course. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 161 A thousand devices..prepared him to elude the wound. 1828Scott F.M. Perth I. 250 It was..agreed, that, to elude the bad omen, the new King should assume the name of Robert.
b. To evade the force of (an argument).
1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 6. (1619) 102 Others seeking to elude this text say, etc. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. (1675) 342 Men..elude what they cannot despise. 1696Whiston Th. Earth (1722) 27 The Holy Books ought not to be tormented or eluded. 1710Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 625 All which the Paris letters of the 1st seem to elude. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 415 He thus adroitly eludes an argument which, etc.
3. To evade compliance with or fulfilment of (a law, order, demand, request, obligation, etc.).
1651Hobbes Govt. & Soc. xviii. §13. 360 He would..elude that obedience which he hath contracted to yeeld. 1698Sidney Disc. Govt. iii. §27 (1704) 344 He that dos by art obliquely elude, confesses he has not a right absolutely to refuse. 1709Steele Tatler No. 6 ⁋13 The Pope uses all imaginable shifts to elude the Treaty. 1769Robertson Chas. V, III. x. 192 He wished..to have eluded the obligation of his oath. 1837Thirlwall Greece VIII. 381 A cavil was now devised to elude this title. 1878Browning La Saisias 69 How comes law to bear eluding?
4. To slip away from, escape adroitly from (a person's grasp or pursuit, lit. and fig.); to evade (curiosity, vigilance, etc.).
1667Milton P.L. ix. 158 Of these..the vigilance I dread, and to elude, thus wrapt in mist..glide obscure. 1766Goldsmith Vic. W. xxix. (1857) 210 Providence has thought fit to elude our curiosity. 1859Jephson Brittany iv. 42 The glittering gem of the Arabian tale ever eludes the grasp. 1879G. C. Harlan Eyesight iii. 35 The something..that evolves thought and reason—like an ignis fatuus, eludes the grasp of science.
b. Hence, to elude a person: to escape his embrace, grasp, pursuit.
1791Cowper Iliad x. 411 Lest he elude us, and escape to Troy. 1813H. & J. Smith Horace in Lond. 156 The jilt [wit] in spite Eludes the man of letters. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. (1858) 297 He eludes thee like a Spirit. 1879Froude Cæsar xvii. 286 Ambiorix..had as yet eluded him.
5. Of things: to elude enquiry, elude notice, elude observation, etc.: to remain undiscovered or unexplained.
1791Boswell Johnson (1816) II. 358 note, This celebrated Epitaph..has eluded a very diligent enquiry. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. §3. 243 The total absorption being so small as to elude even Melloni's delicate tests. 1878Tait & Stewart Unseen Univ. vi. §177. 181 So infinitesimally small as to elude our observation.
Hence eˈluded ppl. a., eˈluding vbl. n.
1703Pope Thebais 303 Th' eluded rage of Jove. 1725― Odyss. xvi. 495 Th' eluded suitors stem the wat'ry way. 1737Johnson in Boswell (1816) I. 87 A feeble government, eluded laws. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. v. 121 A triumphant eluding of his purpose. |