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Escape
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. ircbb€oOac, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to slip out of, get away), a verb meaning to get away from, especially from impending danger or harm, to avoid capture, to regain one's liberty after capture. As a substantive, "escape," in law, is the regaining of liberty by one in custody contrary to due process of law. Such escape may be by force, if out of prison it is generally known as "prison-breach" or "prisonbreaking," or by the voluntary or negligent act of the custodian. Where the escape is caused by the force or fraud of others it is termed "rescue". "Escape" is used in botany of a cultivated plant found growing wild. The word is also used of a means of escape, e.g."fire-escape," and of a loss or leakage of gas, current of electricity or water. .
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Escape'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/e/escape.html. 1910.
