avoidable

[From Eng. avoid; -able] 1. Liable to become vacant or to be declared void. "The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage, and if there could have been any such pretence, that alone would not avoid them."-Hale. 2. Able to be escaped or shunned. "To take several things for granted is hardly avoid able to any one, whose task it is to show the falsehood or improbability of any truth."-Locke. a-void-ançe, *a-void-ons, *a-voydâwnçe, s. [Eng. avoid; -ance.] A. Ordinary Language: L The act of voiding, or of avoiding. 1. The act of voiding, or declaring vacant or void. [B.] 2. The act of avoiding or shunning. ( Lit. & fig .) and the avoidance of all the state and works of darkne which we should abhor."-Bp. Hall: Rem II. The state of being voided; also the state of being avoided. IMG:content-0936.jpg:[graphic] p. 87. ". an object of pity, of contempt, and avoidance." -Carlyle: Heroes and Hero- Worship, Lect. iv. III. That by which anything is voided, as a channel to carry off water. "In the upper gallery, too, I wish that there may be, if the place will yield it, some fountains running in divers places from the wall, with with some fine avoid ances ."- Bacon E ays, Civ . and Mor ., ch. xlv. B. Law: 1. The act of annulling. (Used of a law.) 2. The state of becoming vacant. (Used of an office.) "Avoidance of an ecclesiastical benefice is-1. By death, which is the act of God. 2. By resignation, which is the act of the incumbent. 3. By ce ion, or the acceptance of a benetice incompatible, which also is the act of the incumbent. 4. By deprivation, which is the act of the ordinary. 5. By the act of the law; as in case of simony; not subscribing the Articles or Declaration; or not reading the Articles or the Common Prayer."- Burn . a-void'-ěd, pa, par. [AvOID, v.] "Q. Eliz. True, when avoidet grace makes destiny: My babes were destined to a fairer death, If grace had ble 'd thee with a fairer life." Shakesp.: Richard III., iv. 4.