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動詞

evite (third-person singular simple present evites, present participle eviting, simple past and past participle evited)

1. (Early Modern, now rare, chiefly Scotland, transitive) To avoid.
   • 1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity:

     The way which our adversaries take to evite this testimony, is most foolish and ridiculous: […]

   • 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since:

     ... Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to ... Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which, being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the whole affair.

   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:

     She stated she must see me, and, if I refused her satisfaction there, she would compel it where I should not evite her.

   • 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona:

     "Ah, but there is a way to evite that arrestment," said he.

   • 1941, Ivan Nikolaevich Filipjev, Jacobus Hermanus Schuurmans Stekhoven, A manual of agricultural helminthology:

     Goodey has criticised these experiments of Rostrup and is of the opinion that she did not quite evite experimental errors.

派生語

• evitable

名詞

e-vite (plural e-vites)

1. An invitation sent by email or computer network.
   • 2008, Diana Rodriguez Wallach, Amigas and School Scandals, page 125:

     Apparently the e-vite I had sent to fifty classmates last night was forwarded to another two hundred by morning. Since they all received the e-vite, they all assumed they were invited regardless of the fact that it hadn't been sent by me.

   • 2010, Michael Connellan, The Fourth Account, page 174:

     The e-vite had a cute picture of Dan carrying Autumn across the threshold of their apartment — taken at their request by the doorman with Autumn's iPhone camera […]