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Definition of Elope
1. Verb. Run away secretly with one's beloved. "The young couple eloped and got married in Las Vegas"
Definition of Elope
1. v. i. To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart.
Definition of Elope
1. Verb. (intransitive of a married person) To run away from home with a paramour. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive of a young person) To run away from home with a lover for the purpose of getting married. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Elope
1. to run off secretly to be married [v ELOPED, ELOPING, ELOPES]
Medical Definition of Elope
1. To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart. "Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from their allegiance." (Addison) Origin: D. Ontloopen to run away; pref. Ont- (akin to G. Ent-, AS. And-, cf. E. Answer) + loopen to run; akin to E. Leap. See Leap. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elope
Literary usage of Elope
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chitty's Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening (1844)
"Replication that she did not elope.(i) ration mentioned, with the appurtenances,
by the endowment of the said F. formerly her husband, because he the said ..."
2. The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1883)
"... and parentage—At nineteen years of age I determined to go to sea—Dissuaded by
my parents—elope with a schoolfellow, and go on board ship—A storm arises, ..."
3. The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"The Heidelberg Cemetery, on the elope of the Geisberg (p. 273), to the S. of the
railway-station, contains the tomba of ..."
4. Italy from the Alps to Naples: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1904)
"By descending the steps to the right of the house we reach a footpath along the
elope, whence we enjoy views of tile ..."
5. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"Six weeks later he would have been ready to elope with Becky Sharp. He is killed
at Waterloo. O'Shanter, Tarn, hero and title of a poem (1790) by Robert ..."
6. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From the Year by Mary Berry (1865)
"... that if you two should elope, I will say like portly Hal the moment he had
beheaded Anne Boleyn, Cock's bones ! now again I stand The jolliest batchelor ..."
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