abscond

t. & i. [Lat. abscondo = to put away or hide from: abs away, and condo = to hide; Sp. esconderse, v.t. to hide; Ital. ascondere.] * A. Transitive: 1. To put away with the view of hiding. 2. To conceal, to obscure. "Do not abscond and conceal your sins."-Hewyt: Sermons , p. 56. ( Leatham .) "Nothing discoverable on the lunar surface is ever covered and coverothing and absconded from us by the interposition of any clouds or mists, but such as arise from ou own globe." Bentley Serm. viii. B. Intransitive: L. Used of men: 1. Gen.: To vanish from public view and take refuge in some hiding-place, or in some foreign country, to avoid unpleasant consequences which might arise by remaining at one's post. "But if he absconds , and it is thought proper to pursue him to an outlawry, then a greater exactne is nece ary."-Black stone: Comm ., bk. iv., c. 24. 2. More special : To desert one's post. that very home-sickne which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond at the risk of stripes and of death."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xiif. 3. Law : To go out of the jurisdiction of a court, or to conceal oneself, to avoid having a proce served upon one. *IL. Used of animals: To lie concealed, to hybernate. "The marmotte, or Mus alpinus , which abscon is all winter, lives on its own iat."-Ray On the Cres LOM. abs-cond-ěd, pa. par. [ABSCOND.] +abs-cond-ed-ly, adv. [ABSCOND.] In concealment, in hiding. an old Roman priest that then lived abscon dedly in Oxon."-Wood: Athena Oxonienses, L. 61 abs-cond-ençe, s. [ABSCOND.] Conceal ment.