Obs. [as if ad. L. *fugācia, f. fugax.] Flight; also, the fact of being a fugitive slave.
c. 1600. Norden, Spec. Brit., Cornw. (1728), 2. Cornwall be deryued of Corineus, the laste sillable of Corn-wall being Saxon, which was added vnto Corinea- vpon the fugacie of the conquered Britons.
1610. W. Folkingham, Art of Survey, III. iv. 71. Waiues, Weifes, or waiued goods, import all goods and chattels, which being stolne, are left or forsaken by the thiefe in his fugacie.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon., i. § 23 (1642), 15. Though outwardly they were of that earthly City, built up by Cain in the Land of his Banishment, and Fugacy from God; yet belonged they intrinsecally to that everlasting City of God, built for and upon Seth and his Posterity.
a. 1661. Holyday, Juvenal, 261/1. The common Letter, wherewith were branded, to express their fugacy, was φ or F.
