evadable

[Eng. evad (e); -able.] That may or can be evaded or avoided; avoidable. ě-vā de, v . t . & i . [Fr. évader , from Lat. eva do to get away from: e =out, away, and vado to go; Sp. evadir ; Ital. evadere .] A. Transitive : 1. To escape from by artifice, craft, or stratagem; "Bees of sense thy arts evade." E. More: Spider and Bee. IMG:content-1177.png:[blocks in formation] 2. It is sometimes followed by from . "His wisdom, by often evading from perils, was turned rather into a dexterity to deliver himself from danger, than into a providence to prevent it."-Bacon: Henry VII. 3. To practice sophistry or evasion; to act evasively. "The ministers of God are not to evade or take refuge in any of these two fore-mentioned ways."-South. (1) For the difference between to evade and to escape , seo ESCAPE. (2) Crabb thus discriminates between to evade , to equivocate , and to prevaricate : "These words designate an artful mode of escaping the scrutiny of an inquirer: we evade by artfully turning the subject or calling off the attention of the inquirer; we equivocate by the use of equivocal expre ions; we prevaricate by the use of loose and indefinite expre ions: we avoid giving satisfaction by evading ; we give a false satisfaction by equivocating ; we give di atisfaction by prevaricating . Evading is not so mean a practice as equivocating : it may be sometimes prudent to evade a question which we do not wish to answer; but equivocations are em ployed for the purposes of falsehood and interest: prevarications are still meaner; and are resorted to mostly by criminals in order to escape detection." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) ě-vād-i-ble, a. [Eng.evad(e); -able.] The same as EVADABLE (q. v.). *e-va-ga-tion, s. [Lat. evagatio , from evagatus , pa. par. of evagor to wander widely; Fr. évag a tion ; Sp. evagacion .] The act of wandering or straying; an excursion. "If the law of attraction had not been what it is, every evagation would have been fatal."-Paley: Natural The ology , ch. xxii.