evacuation (evakuashon)

[= F. éгасна tion Pr. evacuacio = Sp. evacuacion = Pg. eracuação = It. evacuazione, town. IMG:content-0814.png:[blocks in formation] His wisdom, by often evading from perils, was turned rather into a dexterity to deliver himself from dangers, than into a providence to prevent. Bacon , Hist. Hen. VII. 2. To practise evasion; use elusive methods. The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge in any of these two forementioned ways. South , Sermons. He [Charles I.] hesitates; he erades; at last he bargains to give his a ent for five subsidies. = Macaulay .