Both Uses of
evade
in
Gulliver's Travels
- After much debate, they concluded unanimously, that I was only relplum scalcath, which is interpreted literally lusus naturae; a determination exactly agreeable to the modern philosophy of Europe, whose professors, disdaining the old evasion of occult causes, whereby the followers of Aristotle endeavoured in vain to disguise their ignorance, have invented this wonderful solution of all difficulties, to the unspeakable advancement of human knowledge.†
Chpt 2
- I evaded the question by general answers; "that I had satisfied the Emperor and court in all particulars."†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
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(evade as in: evade the enemy) physically avoid or get away from; or: said of something that is hard to obtain