Definition of "levanted" [levanted]

• Simple past tense and past participle of levant. (verb)

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• "I dressed, therefore, rather hurriedly, and on getting again to the shore, found that Mr. John Smith had not levanted."
• "Was it not clear that a conspiracy might have been made without his knowledge; — and clear also that the real conspirators had levanted?"
• "‘I suppose you have not heard that one young man levanted last year to save himself from a breach of promise case?’"