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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EVA'DING, ppr. Escaping; avoiding; eluding; slipping away from danger, pursuit or attack.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Evade E*vade" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evaded; p. pr. & vb. n.. Evading.] [L. evadere, evasum, e out + vadere to go, walk: cf. F. s'['e]vader. See Wade.] To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument. The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles. --Trench.