eludev. t.[L. eludere, elusum; e + ludere to play: cf. F. luder. See Ludicrous.] To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from 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, eludes he eager swain. (Pope.)The transition from fetichism to polytheism seems a gradual process of which the stages elude close definition. (Tylor.)()