Definition of Exle
Ex"ile (?), n. [OE. exil, fr. L.
exilium, exsilium, fr. exsuil one who quits, or
is banished from, his native soil; ex out + solum
ground, land, soil, or perh. fr.the root of salire to leap,
spring; cf. F. exil. Cf. Sole of the foot,
Saltation.] 1. Forced separation from
one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil
authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's
native country.
Let them be recalled from their
exile. Shak.
2. The person expelled from his country by
authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.
Thou art in exile, and thou must not
stay. Shak.
Syn. -- Banishment; proscription; expulsion.
Ex"ile (?) v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Exiled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Exiling.] To banish or expel from one's own country or
home; to drive away. "Exiled from eternal God."
Tennyson.
Calling home our exiled friends
abroad. Shak.
Syn. -- See Banish.
Ex*ile" (?), a. [L. exilis.]
Small; slender; thin; fine. [Obs.] "An exile
sound." Bacon.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not
an ambassador.
An English sea-captain being asked if he had read "The Exile of
Erin," replied: "No, sir, but I should like to anchor on it." Years
afterwards, when he had been hanged as a pirate after a career of
unparalleled atrocities, the following memorandum was found in the
ship's log that he had kept at the time of his reply:
Aug. 3d, 1842. Made a joke on the ex-Isle of Erin. Coldly
received. War with the whole world!
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- (state)
he lived in exile.
they chose exile rather than assimilation.
- (person)
he lived as an exile.
- to send into exile.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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