[n. of action from prec.: see -ATION.]

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  1.  Sc. Law. A judicial sentence, declaring a person to be a fugitive from justice, and inflicting the penalty of outlawry and confiscation of goods.

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1752.  J. Louthian, Form of Process (ed. 2), 144. The Sentence of Fugitation is pronounced by the Clerk to the Macer, who repeats the same audibly, thus: ‘The Lords Justice-Clerk and Commissioners of Justiciary, Decern and adjudge—, —and——to be Out-laws and Fugitives from his Majesty’s Laws, and ordain them to be put to the Horn, and all their moveable Goods and Gear to be escheat.

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1820.  Edin. Rev., XXXIV. Aug., 192. King Sigurd, therefore, craved that the deemsters should pronounce sentence of outlawry and fugitation.

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1880.  Masson, Milton, VI. I. i. 134. On the 10th of October there was a decree of fugitation or outlawry against Sir Archibald Johnstone [etc.].

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  b.  transf. Exclusion from society.

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1837.  Blackw. Mag., XLII. Oct., 516/1. In plain English, their ladyships know well that, in the present crisis, Lord Melbourne acts the part of Duenna, and Lord John Russell as Soubrette, and that between both, every syllable uttered in the darkest corner of the darkest coterie would come to light, and instant fugitation be the inevitable reward of too much candour.

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  2.  The action of fleeing.

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1823.  Blackw. Mag., XIV. July, 14/1. All the bustle of fugitation and war.

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1881.  Masson, De Quincey, 110. It was there [the cottage at Lasswade], in fact, with all allowance for his wanderings and fugitations, that he did spend most of his time.

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