| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In a fugitive manner.[Websters]
2. In a transient or short-lived manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In an impermanent or provisional manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a temporal, transitional or interim manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In an ephemeral or elusive manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In an evanescent or volatile manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a short or frail manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a casual or incidental manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a swift, rapid or quick manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Rarely used adverbial inflection of the adjective fugitive.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (fugitive) | 1. Lasting for a markedly brief time; "fugitive hours".[Wordnet]. 2. Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.[Websters]. 3. 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.[Websters]. 4. Being transient, fleeting, evanescent, momentary or short-lived.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being transitory, ephemeral, temporary, impermanent or perishable.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being volatile, unstable or inconstant.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being elusive or evasive.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being cursory, superficial or perfunctory.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being short or brief.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adjective base of the adverb fugitively.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FUGITIVELY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1893. (references) |
Specialty Definition: fugitive
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Adjective] Volatile; apt to flee away; readily wafted by the wind. The more tender and fugitive parts -. | 2: [Adjective] Not tenable; not to be held or detained; readily escaping; as a fugitive idea.. | 3: [Adjective] Unstable; unsteady; fleeting; not fixed or durable.. | 4: [Adjective] Fleeing; running from danger or pursuit.. | 5: [Adjective] Fleeing from duty; eloping; escaping. Can a fugitive daughter enjoy herself, while her parents are in tears?. | 6: [Adjective] Wandering; vagabond; as a fugitive physician.. | 7: [Adjective] In literature, fugitive compositions are such as are short and occasional, written in haste or at intervals, and considered to be fleeting and temporary.. | 8: [Noun] One who fees from his station or duty; a deserter; one who flees from danger.. | 9: [Noun] One who has fled or deserted and taken refuge under another power, or one who has fled from punishment.. | 10: [Noun] One hard to be caught or detained. Or catch that airy fugitive, called wit.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Bible | 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. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | ||
| Law | FUGITIVE. A runaway, one who is at liberty, and endeavors, by, going away, to escape. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | A fugitive is a person who is fleeing from legal custody, whether it be from an arrest to someone who is sought for questioning. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Adjective] elusive of difficult to retain. (references) | 2: [Adjective] fleeing or running away. (references) | 3: [Adjective] transient, fleeting or ephemeral. (references) | 4: [Noun] (often followed by "from") a person who is fleeing or escaping from something John was a fugitive. (references) |
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Common Expressions: fugitive
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| 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. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Fugitive from justice | 1: (Law), one who, having committed a crime in one jurisdiction, flees or escapes into another to avoid punishment. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: Someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Fugitive pigments | Fugitive pigments, in painting, are non-permanent pigments (pigments that lighten in what is understood, said or defined to be a relatively short time when exposed to light). (references) | ||
| Fugitive slave | In the history of slavery in the United States, a fugitive slave was a slave who had escaped his or her masters often with the intention of traveling to a place where the state of his or her enslavement was either illegal or not enforced. The Underground Railroad existed to guide fugitive slaves on the road to freedom. (references) | ||
| Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 | The 1793 Fugitive Slave Law was written in response to a conflict between Pennsylvania and Virginia. Although the problem of fugitive slaves was addressed at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 (in Article IV, Section 2 in the final document), there was an assumption that interstate cooperation would allow this provision to be enforced. In reality, differences of moral attitudes and questions over legal responsibility for enforcement made the rendition of fugitives difficult. (references) | ||
| Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 | The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slaveholding interests and Northern Free-Soilers and abolitionists. (references) | ||
| Fugitive slave laws | The fugitive slave laws were statutes passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of negro slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a public territory. (references) | ||
| The Fugitive (1947 film) | The Fugitive is a 1947 film starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford. Gabriel Figueroa was the cinematographer. (references) | ||
| The Fugitive (1993 film) | The Fugitive is a 1993 feature film, based on the television series The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble, and Tommy Lee Jones as Deputy United States Marshal Samuel Gerard. Jones won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. It also featured Andreas Katsulas as the one-armed man, Sela Ward as Kimble's wife, Jeroen Krabbé, Julianne Moore, and Joe Pantoliano. The film was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture; one of the only films to be associated with a television series and be so honored. (references) | ||
| The Fugitive (TV series) | The Fugitive is an American network television dramatic series (ABC, 1963-1967) starring David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble, an innocent man falsely convicted for his wife's murder and sentenced to death. He escapes custody after a train wreck and begins a cross-country search for the one-armed man he correctly believes to be the real killer. The one-armed man's name is Fred Johnson; played by Bill Raisch. Like Kimble, Johnson uses other aliases while on the run. While Johnson is being pursued by Kimble, Kimble is being pursued by the relentless police detective (Lt. Philip Gerard, played by Barry Morse). William Conrad provided voice-over narration for each episode. (references) | ||
| They Made Me a Fugitive | They Made Me A Fugitive is a 1947 British film noir set in postwar England. The black-and-white film was directed by Alberto Cavalcanti (credited as just Cavalcanti) with brooding and atmospheric cinematography by noted cameraman Otto Heller. The script was written by playwright Noel Langley, one of the screenwriters of The Wizard of Oz. The film has also been released under the title I Became a Criminal. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: fugitive
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Emissions, fugitive | Energy | Emissions that are released inadvertently or accidentally from a controlled or closed system, such as natural gas pipelines. (references) | |
| Fugitive air | Mining | Applied to air moving through the fan that never reaches the working faces. It leaks through poor stoppings, around doors and so on, back into the returns without moving anywhere near the active sections. Surveys of some mines show that up to 80% of the air moving through the fan neverreaches the working faces. (references) | |
| Fugitive color | Environment | A coloring agent used in fire retardants that is designed to fade rapidly following retardant application in order to minimize the visual impacts of the retardant. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Fugitive constituent | Mining | A substance that was present in a magma but was lost during crystallization, so that it does not commonly appear as a rockconstituent. (references) | |
| Fugitive dust | Environment | 1: Particulate matter composed of soil; can include emissions from haul roads, wind erosion of exposed soil surfaces, and other activities in which soil is removed or redistributed. (references) | |
| 2: Airborne particulate matter, emitted into the atmosphere from wind erosion of exposed soils or from vehicles traveling over unpaved roads. (references) | |||
| 3: Particulate matter emissions that do not pass through a stack, chimney, vent, pipe or similar opening. (references) | |||
| Fugitive dust | Mining | The particulate matter not emitted from a duct or stack that becomes airborne due to the forces of wind or surface coal mining and reclamation operations or both. During surface coal mining and reclamation operations it may include emissions from haul roads; wind erosion of exposed surfaces, storage piles, and spoil piles; reclamation operations; and other activities in which material is either removed, stored, transported, or redistributed. (references) | |
| Fugitive dust | Transportation | According to EPA regulations, those particulate matter emissions that could not Reasonably pass through a stack, chimney, vent or other functionally equivalent opening. Examples of fugitive dust include windborne particulate matter from earth-moving and material handling during construction activities. (references) | |
| Fugitive emission | Environment | Pollutant emitted from diffuse or ill-defined conditions, e.g., other than a stack or chimney. (references) | |
| Fugitive emissions | Administration | 1: Emissions not caught by a capture system. (references) | |
| 2: Releases of vaporized pollutants to the atmosphere that occur at all sites at which hazardous materials are managed. Fugitive emissions can occur when vapors are vented from containers or tanks and can also be caused by spills occurring during the unloading of hazardous wastes or products from vehicles that transport the material, leaks through pipes and valves, and through operation of equipment. (references) | |||
| Fugitive emissions | Energy | 1: Unintended leaks of gas from the processing, transmission, and/or transportation of fossil fuels. (references) | |
| 2: See Emissions, fugitive. (references) | |||
| Fugitive emissions | Environment | 1: Emissions released directly into the atmosphere that could not reasonably pass through a stack, chimney, vent, or other functionally equivalent opening. (references) | |
| 2: Emissions that do not come from smokestacks, tailpipes, or any other emissions collection system. Air pollution escaping from leaky pipes in an industrial plant is an example of a fugitive emission. (references) | |||
| Fugitive emissions | Weather | Unintended gas leaks from the processing, transmission, and/or transportation of fossil fuels, CFCs from refrigeration leaks, SF6 from electrical power distributor, etc. (references) | |
| Fugitive material | Art | Publications such as pamphlets, posters, performance and exhibit programs, and duplicated material produced in small quantities, which are of immediate, local, or transitory interest and therefore difficult for libraries to collect and catalog. See also: ephemera. (references) | |
| Fugitive slave | Law | FUGITIVE SLAVE. 1. One who has escaped from the service of his master. 2. The Constitution of the United States, art. 4, s. 2, 3, directs that "no person held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any laws or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be clue." In practice summary ministerial proceedings are adopted, and not the ordinary course of judicial investigations, to ascertain whether the claim of ownership be established beyond all legal controversy. Vide, generally, 3 Story, Com. on Const. §1804-1806; Serg. on Const. ch. 31, p. 387; 9 John. R. 62; 5 Serg. & Rawle, 62; 2 Pick. R. 11; 2 Serg. & Rawle, 306; 3 Id. 4; 1 Wash. C. C. R. 500; 14 Wend. R. 507, 539; 18 Wend. R. 678; 22 Amer. Jur. 344. (references) | |
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