A libellous pamphlet of a fugitive physician.
Sir H. Wotton.
2. Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile;
uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and
immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea.
The me more tender and fugitive parts, the leaves . . . of
vegatables.
Woodward.
Fugitive compositions, Such as are short and occasional, and so
published that they quickly escape notice.
Syn. -- Fleeting; unstable; wandering; uncertain; volatile; fugacious;
fleeing; evanescent.
Fu"gi*tive (?), n. 1. One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint,
service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.