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ometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country. Let them be recalled from their exile. Shak.

Banishment. [R.] Sir. H. Wotton.

Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable. Wordsworth.

To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power. "We banish you our territories." Shak.

shes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. "Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow." Dyer.

g letters; -- followed by with. After having been long in indirect communication with the exiled family, he [Atterbury] began to correspond directly with the Pretender. Macualay.

nto thy country, and to thy kindred. Gen. xxxxii. 9. I might have learned this by my last exile, that change of countries cannot change my state. Stirling. Many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account Milton.

To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment. He told us he had been deported to Spain. Walsh.

etermine. [Obs.] The sly, slow hours shall not determinate The dateless limit of thy dear exile. Shak.

To those Jews who, after the Exile, were scattered through the Old World, and afterwards to Jewish Christians living among heathen. Cf. James i.1.

aint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak. "Durance vile." Burns. In durance, exile, Bedlam or the mint. Pope.

Pertaining to exile or banishment, esp. to that of the Jews in Babylon. Encyc. Dict.

To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of. The expatriated landed interest of France. Burke.

Held at a distance; excluded; exiled. [Obs.] Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, That he ran mad and died. Shak. Foreign attachment (Law), a process by which the property of a foreign or absent debtor is attached for the satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, e…

To alarm suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare. Nor exile or danger can fright a brave spirit. Dryden.

One who, or that which, harbors. Geneva was . . . a harborer of exiles for religion. Strype.

- Assyrian in origin, replaced older ones, Abib, Bul, etc., at the time of the Babylonian Exile. Nineteen years constitute a lunar cycle, of which the 3d, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th, and 19th years are leap years. The year 5663 [1902-3 a. d.] was the first year of the 299th lunar cycle. The common year is said to be de…

f time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent. The dateless limit of thy dear exile. Shak. The limit of your lives is out. Shak.

Of or pertaining to oligarchy, or government by a few. "Oligarchical exiles." Jowett (Thucyd. ).

hoice. Transplantation must proceed from the option of the people, else it sounds like an exile. Bacon.