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Webster 1913 Edition
Escaper
Es-cap′er
,Noun.
One who escapes.
Definition 2024
escaper
escaper
English
Noun
escaper (plural escapers)
- Person who escapes.
- 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- The timing of the incident raised the question, almost certainly destined to remain unanswered, of whether, having allowed the escapers to pass by unhindered, the culprit had waited specifically for the yellow jersey group before sowing his mischief.
- 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
Old French
Verb
escaper
- Alternative form of eschaper
- 1303, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 166 of this essay:
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aulcuns en escapent et aulcuns meurent
- some escape it and some die from it
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aulcuns en escapent et aulcuns meurent
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Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ps, *-pt are modified to s, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of escaper (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | escaper | avoir escapé | |||||
| gerund | en escapant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | escapant | ||||||
| past participle | escapé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | escap | escapes | escape | escapons | escapez | escapent |
| imperfect | escapoie, escapeie, escapoe, escapeve | escapoies, escapeies, escapoes, escapeves | escapoit, escapeit, escapot, escapeve | escapiiens, escapiens | escapiiez, escapiez | escapoient, escapeient, escapoent, escapevent | |
| preterite | escapai | escapas | escapa | escapames | escapastes | escaperent | |
| future | escaperai | escaperas | escapera | escaperons | escaperoiz, escapereiz, escaperez | escaperont | |
| conditional | escaperoie, escapereie | escaperoies, escapereies | escaperoit, escapereit | escaperiiens, escaperiens | escaperiiez, escaperiez | escaperoient, escapereient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | escap | escas | escat | escapons | escapez | escapent |
| imperfect | escapasse | escapasses | escapast | escapissons, escapissiens | escapissoiz, escapissez, escapissiez | escapassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | escape | — | escapons | escapez | — | ||