Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Evade

Evade , transitive verb

[Latin evadere, evasum, e out + vadere to go, walk: compare French s'évader. See Wade.]

To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument.
The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles. — Trench

Evade , transitive verb

1.
To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.
Evading from perils. — Bacon
Unarmed they might Have easily, as spirits evaded swift By quick contraction or remove. — Milton
2.
To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these... ways. — South