the act of evading or rendering a thing vain and of no effect; a dexterous getting clear, or escaping out of an affair, difficulty, embarrassment, or the like. We say, to elude a proposition, &c. The design of chicanery is, to elude the force of the laws: this doctor has not resolved the difficulty, but eluded it. Alexander says the historian, in cutting the Gordian knot, either eluded the oracle or fulfilled it: Ille nequiquam lucitatus cum latentibus nolit, Nihil, inquit, interefi, quomodo solvatur; gladioque ruptis omnibus loris, ovoculi fortun vel eludit, vel implevit.