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ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. kSwcrflai, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to slip out ...

... ous, and when they are incised a quantity of a blood-stained gelatinous exudate escapes. When the swellings have attained certain proportions symptoms of general infection appear, and, running their course with great rapidity, cause death in a few hours. Anthr ...

... and took no steps to suppress it, and that the feudal bureaucracy who had just escaped a great danger were not sorry to tec the discontented populace venting their passions on the Jews. In the higher i ir< li-s of the government, however, other views prevaile ...

... ons of the surrender by wholesale imprisonment of Liberals. In 1855 he narrowly escaped assassination. As ally of the Bourbons of Naples, from whom he had received an annual subsidy, he attempted, after 1860, to facilitate their restoration by fomenting brigan ...

... o plunder with a force of cavalry, tn 76 he was tried for his malpractices, but escaped punishment; six years later he was removed from the senate by the censors, but soon afterwards reinstated. In spite of his bad reputation, lie was elected tribune in 71, pr ...

... ce, where he was attache to the Russian legation, he was arrested in 1 797, but escaped to Russia. Sent as Russian attache to Dresden, he published a violent pamphlet against Napoleon I., and was expelled by the Saxon government. He then went to London, and it ...

... n. It was said that he was accused of treason both by Nero and by Domitian, but escaped by miraculous means. Finally he set up a school at Ephesus, where he died, apparently at the age of a hundred years. Philostratus keeps up the mystery of his hero's life by ...

... e riddle, which had to do with Antiochus's secret. He returned to Tyre, and, to escape the king's vengeance, set sail in search of a place of refuge. In Cyrene he married the daughter of King Archistrates, and presently, on receiving news of the death of Antio ...

... rated hi the fortress of Belver in June 1808. On the 28th of July he managed to escape from the island in a fishing-boat, and after an adventurous voyage he reached Algiers on the 3rd of August. Thence he procured a passage in a vessel bound for Marseilles, bu ...

... , sent to cut off his retreat. Eugenius was captured and executed, but Arbogast escaped to the mountains, where however he slew himself three days afterwards (8th of September 394). Although we have only most distorted narratives upon which to rely — pagan eul ...

... n the hands of an American Indian; rude pieces of quartz, which unmounted would escape notice as implements, are seen to make excellent tools when mounted in a handle by the Australian black, while flakes of slate find a use when mounted as skinning-knives by ...

... and then separating himself from Murray he commanded Mary's soldiers after her escape from Lochlcven, and by his want of courage and resolution was partly responsible for her defeat at Langside in May 1568. Soon afterwards he made his peace with Murray, but i ...

... and then separating himself from Murray he commanded Mary's soldiers after her escape from Lochlcven, and by his want of courage and resolution was partly responsible for her defeat at Langside in May 1568. Soon afterwards he made his peace with Murray, but i ...

... trusive, but south of T.iy \allicn on the mainland, lavas and tuffs, which have escaped deformation, occur in the Easdale slates and the pebbly limestone. The Lower Old Red Sandstone, chiefly composed of volcanic rock* — lavas and tuffs — rests unconformably o ...

... hics and the Magna Moralia, the only logical conclusion, from which there is no escape, is that, so far as the t merit of pleasure goes, any Aristotelian treatise which defines it as activity is genuine. There is no reason for doubting that the Nicomaehean Eth ...

... congratulatory address from the wapentakc of Wirksworth to George III., on his escape from the attempt on his life by Margaret Nicholson.

... t soon changed again. The English fleet, of which part had been in some danger, escaped uninjured, and the Spaniards stood on. They anchored on the z6th of July at Calais. The duke of Medina Sidonia now sent an officer to Parma, calling on him to come to sea a ...

... fensive creatures, offering no resistance when caught; their principal means of escape being the extraordinary rapidity with which they burrow in the ground, and the tenacity with which they retain their hold in their subterranean retreats. Notwithstanding the ...

... the Gustavians. The plot was discovered by the regent's spies, and Armfelt only escaped from the man-of-war sent to Naples to seize him, with the assistance of Queen Caroline.. He now fled to Russia, where he was interned at Kaluga, while at home he was condem ...

... indecisive battle was fought in the Teutoburger Wald, where Germanicus narrowly escaped the fate of Varus, and in the following year Arminius was defeated. The hero's later years were spent in fighting against Marbod, prince of the Marcomanni, and in disputes ...

... the excitement it produced that Arndt was compelled to take refuge in Sweden to escape the vengeance of Napoleon. Settling in Stockholm, he obtained government employment, but devoted himself to the great cause which was nearest his heart, and in pamphlets, po ...

... by the Swedes on suspicion of being concerned in various intrigues. He made his escape ultimately, and returned to Saxony. Arnim died suddenly at Dresden in 1641, whilst engaged in raising an army to free German soil from foreign armies of all kinds. (Sec THIR ...

... in the sea-fight near Salami's (480). When closely pursued by the Athenians she escaped by the stratagem of attacking one of the Persian vessels, whereupon the Athenians concluded that she was an ally, and gave up the pursuit (Herod, vii. 09, viii. 68). After ...

... erely the result of the evaporation and oxidation of liquid petroleum which has escaped from outcropping strata. The celebrated Pitch Lake of Trinidad was long regarded as the largest deposit of asphalt in existence, but it is said to be exceeded in area, if n ...

... untries has been the immediate end of the world. As early as 1186 the earth had escaped one threatened cataclysm of the astrologers. This did not prevent Stofiler from predicting a universal deluge for the year 1524 — a year, as it turned out, distinguished fo ...

... defeated and pursued by the enemy, and criminals who feared a trial or who had escaped before sentence was passed. (See treatises De Asylis Graecis, by Forster, 1847; Jaenisch, 1868; Earth, 1888.) With the establishment of Christianity, the custom of asylum o ...

... aid him against his brother. For six years Jem, in spite of frequent efforts to escape, was kept a close prisoner in various castles of the Rhodian order in France, until in 1489 he was handed over to Pope Innocent VIII., who had been vying with the kings of H ...

... in the Levant. He served in the Russian army against the Turks; but afterwards escaped into Prussia and enlisted in the guards. Tiring of this, he deserted with several others and reached the Saxon frontier. Service in the Neapolitan army and a sojourn in Por ...

... 1896, Mr Austin was appointed. As poet-laureate, his occasional verses did not escape adverse criticism; his hasty poem in praise of the Jameson Raid in 1896 being a notable instance. The most effective characteristic of Mr Austin's poetry, as of the best of ...

... ched with the finger or connected to earth for a moment, a negative charge will escape from the metal plate to earth at that moment. The arrangement thus constitutes a condenser; the upper plate on its under surface carries a charge of positive electricity and ...

... le of energy, its conservation, as regards amount, should for a long while have escaped recognition after it had become familiar in pure dynamics. If a pound weight be suspended by a string passing over pulley, in descending through 10 ft. it is capable of rai ...

... hy for the attempt to murder, though by pleading his privilege as ambassador he escaped a trial, and d'Eon was found guilty of the libel. Failing to come up for judgment when called on, be was outlawed. For some years afterwards he lived in obscurity, appearin ...

... 823 he crowned his work by producing his model grand pianoforte with the double escapement. Erard died at Passy, on the 5th of August 1831. (See also HARP and PIANOFORTE.)

... ed. It must excite our surprise that one who used his pen so freely should have escaped the pains and penalties which invariably overtook minor offenders in the same kind. For it was not only against the clergy and the monks that he kept up a ceaseless stream ...

... grammatical niceties in Latin, in regard to the consecution of tenses which had escaped preceding critics. His canons are, however, not without exceptions. As an editor of the Greek classics, Ernesti hardly deserves to be named beside his Dutch contemporaries, ...

... es abroad, was arrested by the states of Zealand, but was afterwards allowed to escape. He returned to Scotland secretly in 1596, and on the aoth of June 1597 abjured Romanism and made his peace with the Kirk. He enjoyed the favour of the king, and in 1602 was ...

... ged for fifteen days, and only the church, a part of the palace, and two towers escaped uninjured. In 1808 the whole building was exposed to the ravages of the French soldiers under General La Houssaye. On the night of the ist of October 1872, the college and ...

... uld safely eat, and priests of their own to prepare their food. Some Christians escaped the difficulties of their position by eating no meat at all. " He that is weak," says Paul (Rom. xiv. i), " eateth herbs"; that is, becomes a vegetarian. Rather than scanda ...

... leasure was the chief good, because (i) all beings sought it and endeavoured to escape its contrary, pain; (2) it is an end in itself , not a relative good. Aristotle, who speaks highly of the sincerity of Eudoxus's convictions, while giving a qualified approv ...

... feudalism. During the same period the after the East Roman or Byzantine empire escaped disruption death of and, preserving the traditions of Roman civil and •i> t • • • f i ff . i • military administration, formed an effective barrier for Europe and Christend ...