EXILE

n. v. a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
n.

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.

3.
v.

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.

4.
a.

Small; slender; thin; fine. [Obs.] "An exile sound." Bacon.


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