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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1703-1728, 1824-1940
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EVITE, v. Also aveet, eveet; †eveat (Sc. 1721–22 R. Wodrow Sufferings (1828) IV. 519). To avoid, escape, evade, shun (Sc. 1752 D. Hume Polit. Discourses xiv. 56). Obs. in Eng. since 17th cent. [ə′vit]Sc. 1703 Seafield Letters (S.H.S.) 7:
Far greater inconveniences are evited by accepting of it, as I have above represented.Sc. 1728 Ramsay Poems II. 236:
And smiling, ca' her little Foolie, Syne with a Kiss evite a Toolie.Slk. 1824 Hogg Confessions 265:
She stated that she must see me, and if I refused her satisfaction there, she would compel it where I should not evite her.Bwk. 1859 P. Landreth J. Spindle (1911) 6:
I aveeted their girn ance.Sc. 1893 Stevenson Catriona ix.:
"And how are they to bring in Alan till they can catch him?" says I. "Ah, but there is a way to evite that arrestment," said he.Abd. 1926 P. Giles in Abd. Univ. Review (July) 222:
Bit mony an ulldeer hid t' come t' Sawtie in order t' eveet suspeecion.Ayr. 1940 (per Fif.1):
An old Ayrshire woman told me that she was seventy and was having her first illness: "Ye can win on a lang time, but you canna evite it."
