ELO'PE, verb intransitive [Eng. to leap.] 1. To run away; to depart from one's proper place or station privately or without permission; to quit, without permission or right, the station in which one is placed by law or duty. Particularly and appropriately, to run away or depart from a husband, and live with an adulterer, as a married woman; or to quit a father's house, privately or without permission, and marry or live with a gallant, as an unmarried woman. 2. To run away; to escape privately; to depart, without permission, as a son from a father's house, or an apprentice from his master's service.
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