evite

present singular third person evites · participle present eviting · participle past evited · past evited

1. EarlyModernScotlandarchaictransitiveTo avoid.

   "Ah, but there is a way to evite that arrestment," said he.

   1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona

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   The way which our adversaries take to evite this testimony, is most foolish and ridiculous: […]

   1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity

   ... Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to ... Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which, being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the whole affair.

   1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since

   She stated she must see me, and, if I refused her satisfaction there, she would compel it where I should not evite her.

   1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

   Goodey has criticised these experiments of Rostrup and is of the opinion that she did not quite evite experimental errors.

   1941, Ivan Nikolaevich Filipjev, Jacobus Hermanus Schuurmans Stekhoven, A manual of agricultural helminthology