FUGITIVE
\fjˈuːd͡ʒɪtˌɪv], \fjˈuːdʒɪtˌɪv], \f_j_ˈuː_dʒ_ɪ_t_ˌɪ_v]\
Definitions of FUGITIVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.
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One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.
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Something hard to be caught or detained.
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Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; - applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea.
By Oddity Software
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Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.
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One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.
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Something hard to be caught or detained.
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Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; - applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea.
By Noah Webster.
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Unstable; fleeting; as, a fugitive idea; not permanent; fleeing from danger, pursuit, or duty; as, a fugitive slave.
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One who thus flees; a runaway or deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Volatile; apt to flee away; readily escaping or disappearing; fleeting; not fixed or durable; fleeing from danger, pursuit, or duty; wandering; vagabond.
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One who flees from his station, duty, or danger; one who has taken refuge from punishment under another power; one not easily caught. Fugitive compositions, such as are short and occasional, written in haste or at intervals, and considered to be fleeting and temporary.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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n. One who flees from his station or duty; a deserter; one who flees from danger or from punishment.
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Not tenable; unsteady; volatile, apt to fly away; flying, running from danger; flying from duty, falling off; wandering, vagabond.
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One who runs from his station or duty; one who takes shelter under another power from punishment.
By Thomas Sheridan
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