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SCAPED
Verb
scaped
simple past tense and past participle of scape
Anagrams
• PESCAD, spaced
Source: Wiktionary
SCAPE
Scape, n. Etym: [L. scapus shaft, stem, stalk; cf. Gr. scape. Cf. Scepter.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The long basal joint of the antennæ of an insect.
3. (Arch.) (a) The shaft of a column. (b) The apophyge of a shaft.
Scape, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Scaped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scaping.] Etym: [Aphetic form of escape.]
Definition: To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.] Milton. Out of this prison help that we may scape. Chaucer.
Scape, n.
1. An escape. [Obs.] I spake of most disastrous chances, . . . Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach. Shak.
2. Means of escape; evasion. [Obs.] Donne.
3. A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. [Obs.] Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance. Milton.
4. Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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