Fugitive \Fu"gi*tive\, a. [OE. fugitif, F. fugitif, fr. L.
fugitivus, fr. fugere to flee. See Bow to bend, and cf.
Feverfew.]
1. Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping,
from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive
slave; a fugitive debtor.
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The fugitive Parthians follow. --Shak.
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Can a fugitive daughter enjoy herself while her
parents are in tear? --Richardson
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A libellous pamphlet of a fugitive physician. --Sir
H. Wotton.
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2. Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away;
volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; --
applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive
colors; a fugitive idea.
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The me more tender and fugitive parts, the leaves .
. . of vegatables. --Woodward.
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Fugitive compositions, Such as are short and occasional,
and so published that they quickly escape notice.
Syn: Fleeting; unstable; wandering; uncertain; volatile;
fugacious; fleeing; evanescent.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fugitive \Fu"gi*tive\, n.
1. One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service,
duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.
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2. Something hard to be caught or detained.
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Or Catch that airy fugitive called wit. --Harte.
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Fugitive from justice (Law), one who, having committed a
crime in one jurisdiction, flees or escapes into another
to avoid punishment.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fugitive
adj : lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance";
"fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of
things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse" [syn:
fleeting, momentaneous, momentary]
n 1: someone who flees from an uncongenial situation; "fugitives
from the sweatshops" [syn: runaway]
2: someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to
elude justice [syn: fugitive from justice]
WordNet (r) 2.0
135 Moby Thesaurus words for "fugitive":
DP, Judas, absconder, at large, betrayer, bolter, brief, brittle,
capricious, changeable, circumforaneous, convict, corruptible,
criminal, crook, deceiver, deciduous, deserter, desperado,
desperate criminal, disappearing, discursive, disengaged,
displaced person, dissolving, divagatory, double-dealer, drifting,
dying, eloper, emigre, ephemeral, errant, escape artist, escaped,
escapee, escaper, escapist, evacuee, evanescent, evaporating,
fading, felon, fickle, fled, fleeing, fleer, fleeting, flitting,
floating, flown, fly-by-night, flying, footloose,
footloose and fancy-free, fragile, frail, free, fugacious, gadding,
gallows bird, gangster, gaolbird, gypsy-like, gypsyish, hot,
impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, in flight, inconstant,
insubstantial, jailbird, landloping, lawbreaker, loose, meandering,
melting, migrational, migratory, mobster, momentary, mortal,
mutable, nomad, nomadic, nondurable, nonpermanent, on the lam,
on the loose, out of, outlaw, passing, perishable, public enemy,
quisling, racketeer, rambling, ranging, refugee, roaming, roving,
runagate, runaway, running away, scofflaw, scot-free, shifting,
short-lived, skedaddler, stateless person, straggling, straying,
strolling, swindler, temporal, temporary, thief, thug, traipsing,
traitor, transient, transitive, transitory, transmigratory,
two-timer, undurable, unenduring, unstable, vagabond, vagrant,
vanishing, volatile, wandering, well out of
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Fugitive
Gen. 4:12, 14, a rover or wanderer (Heb. n'a); Judg. 12:4, a
refugee, one who has escaped (Heb. palit); 2 Kings 25:11, a
deserter, one who has fallen away to the enemy (Heb. nophel);
Ezek. 17:21, one who has broken away in flight (Heb. mibrah);
Isa. 15:5; 43:14, a breaker away, a fugitive (Heb. beriah), one
who flees away.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
FUGITIVE. A runaway, one who is at liberty, and endeavors, by, going away,
to escape.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
FUGITIVE, FROM JUSTICE, crim. law. One who, having committed a crime within
a jurisdiction, goes into another in order to evade the law, and avoid its
punishment.
2. By the Constitution of the United States, art. 4, s. 2, it is
provided, that "a person charged in any state with treason, felony or other
crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall, on
demand of the executive authority of the same state from which he fled, be
delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime."
The act of thus delivering up a prisoner, is, by the law of nations, called
extradition. (q.v.)
3. Different opinions are entertained in relation to the duty of a
nation, by the law of nations, independently of any treaty stipulations, to
surrender fugitives from justice when' properly demanded. Vide 1 Kent, Com.
36; 4 John. C. R. 106; 1 Amer. Jurist, 297; 10 Serg. & Rawle, 125; 3 Story,
Com. Const. United States, Sec. 1801; 9 Wend. R. 218; 2 John. R. 479; 6
Binn. R. 617; 4 Johns. Ch. R. 113; 22 Am. Jur. 351: 24 Am. Jur. 226; 14 Pet.
R. 540; 2 Caines, R. 213.
4. Before the executive of the state can be called upon to deliver an
individual, it must appear, first, that a proper and formal requisition of
another governor has been made; secondly, that the requisition was founded
upon an affidavit that the crime was committed by the person charged, or
such other evidence of that fact as may be sufficient; thirdly, that the
person against whom it is directed, is a fugitive from justice. 6 Law
Report, 57.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
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someone who flees from an uncongenial situation; "fugitives from the sweatshops"
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fleeting: lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"
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A fugitive is a person who is fleeing from custody, whether it be from a government arrest, government or non-government questioning, vigilante violence, or outraged private individuals. As a verbal metaphor and psychological concept, one might also be described as a "fugitive from oneself. ...
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Fugitive is a game created by combining many various outdoor games such as Capture the Flag and Cops and Robbers. Fugitive is played with "runners", "drivers", and "riders." The group is split into two sides, the "fugitives" and the "police."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive (game)
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In reference to ink it means the pigment is not stable or will fade at a fast rate. Fugitive pigments are synthetic based and made of cheap components. Futurism Style of glorifying modern technology, speed and the machine age, (Italy, early 20th Century).
http://www.onessimofineart.com/Art_Resources.html
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species One that occupies temporary environments or habitats and so does not persist for many generations at any one site.
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