escapere

escapēre, ~iare [AN escaper, eschapir, OF eschaper] 1 (of animal) to escape (from confinement). b to stray (into enclosed pasture or forest). 13‥ si homo, canis, catus seu alia viva bestia extra navem seu batellum viva ~ient Little RB Bristol I 67. b 1279 si averia illorum in bladum vel pratum ‥ regis eschapiant Hund. II 852; 1293 capit de quolibet animali alieno ~iante in terras suas vj d. vel xij d. vel plus vel minus PQW 204b (cf. ib. 216a: de quolibet animali ‥ eschapiato in pastura sua). 2 (of person) to escape (from custody). 1274 N. le Gardiner ‥ traditus fuit ‥ Waltero vic. et ab custodia sua exchapiavit per malam vardam Hund. I 144a; 1315 Thomam atte B. felonum et utlagatum in comitatu Kanc’ permiserunt voluntarie ~iare RParl I 324b; 1475 Johannes S. et Henricus M‥. ab eadem prisona ‥ ad largum suum evaserunt et eschapuerunt (AncIndict) Proc. J. P. 242.

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