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third-person singular simple present evites, present participle eviting, simple past and past participle evited
(now rare, chiefly Scotland, transitive) To avoid. quotations
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
"Ah, but there is a way to evite that arrestment," said he.
1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona
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