Elude

[Sarah]

To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escapefrom in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle;as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search,comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow.Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, eludeshe eager swain. Pope.The transition from fetichism to polytheism seems a gradual processof which the stages elude close definition. Tylor.