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elope, v.|ɪˈləʊp|
Also 6 ellope.
[In AF. (14th c.) aloper, perh. f. ME. *alope(n, pa. pple. of *aleapen (f. a- prefix 4 + leap) = MDu. ontlōpen, Ger. entlaufen to run away; cf. OE. úthléapan, the technical word for the ‘escaping’ of a thief. The assumed ME. *alope however might stand for ilope, pa. pple. of leapen in same sense; cf. ‘þe wicke giv [was] a wei i-lope’ (Childh. Jes. 972).
The current hypothesis of derivation from MDu. ontlōpen seems improbable on account of the early appearance of the word in AF.]
1. a. Law. Of a wife: To run away from her husband in the company of a paramour. b. In popular language also (and more frequently) said of a woman running away from home with a lover for the purpose of being married.
[1338in Year-bks 11–12 Edw. III (Horw.) 587 En bref de dower plede fut qil alopa de soun baroun. 1538Nottingham Borough Rec. III. 214 Ipsam Katherinam ad elopandum de viro suo..tentavit.] 1628Coke On Litt. 32 a, If the wife elope from her husband she shall lose her dower. 1697Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) IV. 323 He sets forth divers accusations against his lady, who is elop'd from him. 1768Goldsm. Good-n. Man iv, We..must elope methodically, madam. 1818Cruise Digest I. 204 A man by deed granted his wife to another, with whom she eloped and lived in adultery. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville III. 230 He endeavoured to prevail upon his quondam mistress to elope with him. 1884Law Reports Chanc. Div. XXV. 483 On the following day Captain Sampson and Miss Wall eloped.
2. gen. To run away, escape, abscond.
1596Spenser F.Q. v. iv. 9 She left me quight, And to my brother did elope streightway. 1664Butler Hud. ii. i. 260 In close catasta shut, past hope Of wit or valour to elope. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. xlvii. 188 When the Term of Payment came, they eloped. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge lxxxii, The..valet..eloped with all the cash and moveables he could lay his hands on.
3. transf. and fig. (Chiefly in nonce-uses.)
1726Swift To a Lady, But with raillery to nettle..Never lets your mind elope. 1785Cowper Tiroc. 876 Since thy strength must with thy years elope. 1817Keats Ep. C.C. Clarke, Spenserian vowels that elope with ease. |