evacate

English

Etymology

e- +‎ vacate

Verb

evacate (third-person singular simple present evacates, present participle evacating, simple past and past participle evacated)

1. (obsolete) To empty; to nullify.
   • 1709, Samuel Harris, A Sermon Preach'd to the United Society, page 7:

     No Dispensation of GOD to His Church whatever, can evacate a Duty, which of Right is His Claim by the Unchangeable Law of our Creation.

   • 1905, In the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, page 4:

     it appeared upon the argument that judgment had been entered (see affidavit of Bevins, fol. 30), that not preliminary objection was made to the moving papers and said Bevins consented in open court to argue the question whether or not said judgment should be evacated and set aside ( fol . 516).

   • 1912, James Ogilvy Earl of Seafield, James Ogilvy Earl of Findlater, James Grant, Seafield Correspondence from 1685 to 1708, page 222:

     now they are upon the preparing bills for evacating all grants of estates and other interests in England and Ireland from the crowne since K. Charles the Second.

Related terms

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