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One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices. Smart.

Malice; ill will; spite. [Obs.] If he evade us there, Enforce him with his envy to the people. Shak.

To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention. They escaped the search of the enemy. Ludlow.

A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.

Capable of being evaded. [R.]

That may be evaded. [R.]

Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice. Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest, Answered evasive of the sly request. Pope. Stammered out a few evasive phrases. Macaulay. -- E*va"sive*ly , adv. -- E*va"sive*ness, n.

stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow. Let it fall . . . though the fork invade The region of my heart. Shak. A thunderbolt with three forks. Addison.

t, replied. Milton. The expelled nations take heart, and when they fly from one country invade another. Sir W. Temple.

One of a warlike nomadic people of Northern Asia who, in the 5th century, under Atilla, invaded and conquered a great part of Europe.

Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order.

Incapable of being eluded or evaded; unvoidable. Most pressing reasons and ineludible demonstrations. Glanvill.

To make an inroad into; to invade. [Obs.] The Saracens . . . conquered Spain, inroaded Aquitaine. Fuller.

To spread through; to permeate; to pervade. [R.] Keats, in whom the moral seems to have so perfectly interfused the physical man, that you might almost say he could feel sorrow with his hands. Lowell.

To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; -- usually followed by on or upon; as, the king was charged with intrenching on the rights of the nobles, and the nobles were accused of intrenching on the prerogative of the crown. We are not to intrenc…

To enter by force; to invade. [Obs.] Why should the worm intrude the maiden bud Shak.

Tending to invade; characterized by invasion; aggressive. "Invasive war." Hoole.

A sudden and violent inroad, or entrance of invaders; as, the irruptions of the Goths into Italy. Addison.

The continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland. "Invaded the main of Spain." Bacon.

er; ethics. The end of morality is to procure the affections to obey reason, and not to invade it. Bacon. The system of morality to be gathered out of ... ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel. Swift.