evict (evikt)

t. [ If either party be ericted for the defect of the other's title. Black stone . 2. To wrest or alienate by reason of the hostile a ertion of an irresistible title, though without judicial proce . See criction, 2. His lands were evicted from him. King James's Declaration . Hence-3. To expel by force; turn out or remove in any compulsory way: as, to erict disturbers from a theater. - 41. To evince; prove.. I do not desire to be equal to those that went before, but to have my reason examined with theirs, and so much faith to be given them, or me, as those shall erict . B. Jonson, Discoveries. The main question is ericted . Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 156. 51. To set aside; displace; annul. The will had been disputed; and the po ible heir-atlaw had been bound over by the Council, "if he do erict the will, to stand to the King's award and arbitrement." E. A. Abbott , Francis Bacon (1885), p. 171. 6t. To force out; compel. [Rare.] Your happy exposition Evicts glad grant from me you hold a truth. Chapman , Cæsar and Pompey, iv. 3.