Hypertext Webster Gateway: "evaded"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Evade \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'['e]vader. 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.
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