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escapologist|ɛskəˈpɒlədʒɪst, ɛskeɪp-|
[f. escape n.1 + -ologist.]
A performer skilled in extricating himself from knots, handcuffs, confinement in a box, etc. Also transf. and fig. (= escapist 1, 2).
1926Glasgow Herald 1 Oct. 6 An Australian ‘Escapologist’..gave a demonstration of his powers to a private audience at the London Coliseum yesterday. 1936C. Belfrage (title) Away from it all. An escapologist's notebook. 1943A. R. D. Fairburn Strange Rendezvous (1952) 16 Philosophers, sportsmen, and men who are very busy about their own and other people's business are three kinds of escapologists. 1946G. Millar Horned Pigeon vii. 81 Cram was an escapologist. He had already escaped once, from a transit camp in Palermo. 1955J. Thomas No Banners x. 85 On Christmas night the [Madrid] Embassy threw a party for the ‘escapologists’, mostly R.A.F. and B.E.F. personnel. 1958Times 22 Oct. 6/2 Randi, the Canadian escapologist who recreates a number of famous Houdini tricks. 1970Daily Tel. 22 Sept. 12/4 Yesterday's edition included an escapologist who freed himself from a mail bag and manacles inside a locked chest.
So escaˈpology, the methods and technique of escaping, esp. from captivity or danger; the calling of an escapologist.
1939T. Koeves Timetable for Tramps 22 At the higher escapology, the escape from reality by the use of the imagination aided by fashionable dopes, I had found myself to be a duffer. 1959Times 29 Dec. 6/6 This was P—'s seventeenth escape from prisons and approved schools... At his trial..he was described as ‘a past master in the art of escapology’. 1965Spectator 12 Mar. 341/3, I carefully read all the books in the library about disasters by sea, fire, earthquake..and marked those passages which seemed to contain some lesson in escapology. 1966Daily Tel. 19 Dec. 14 (caption) Escapology adviser to the musical, ‘Man of Magic’. |