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Abscond v. t. To hide; to conceal. (Obs.)

Abscond v. i. (past & past part. absconded; pres. part. absconding)

To hide, withdraw, or be concealed. "The marmot absconds all winter."

To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. "That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond."

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"Abscond" Quotes from Famous Books

... what precision and clearness her agitation allowed her, related the whole history of her taking up the money of the Jew for Mr Harrel, and told, without reserve, the reason of her trying to abscond from his father at Mrs Belfield's. Delvile listened to her account with almost an agony of attention, now admiring her conduct; now resenting her ill usage; now compassionating her losses; but though variously moved by different parts, receiving ...

— Cecilia vol. 3 - Memoirs of an Heiress • Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d'Arblay)

... round it. To separate himself from it was to separate himself for ever from his family, and to incur all the misery of that very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond at the risk of stripes and of death. When these things are fairly considered, it will not be thought strange that the Highland clans should have occasionally achieved great ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 3 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... Virginia, and emigrated from somewhere about James River, in that province, to South Carolina, where he resided at the commencement of the revolution. After a reward had been offered for his life, as stated in his memorial, and he had been compelled to abscond, a party of rebels visited his plantation and burned to the ground his dwelling-house and every building upon it, scarcely giving time to my grandmother (as she has often told me) to drag out of the ...

— The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 - From 1620-1816 • Edgerton Ryerson

... kinsmen, all his friends, were arrayed round it. To separate himself from it was to separate himself for ever from his family, and to incur all the misery of that very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond at the risk of stripes and of death. When these things are fairly considered, it will not be thought strange that the Highland clans should have occasionally achieved ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 3 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay