emigration (emigrashon)

[= D. emigratie = Sw.emigration, I hear that there are considerable emigrations from France; and that many, quitting that voluptuous climate and that seductive Circean liberty, have taken refuge in the frozen regions, and under the British despotism of Canada. Burke , Rev. in France. 2. A body of emigrants: as, the Irish emigra tion.-3. A going beyond or out of the accustomed place. For however Jesus had some extraordinary trans vol a tions and acts of emigration beyond the times of his even and ordinary conversation, yet it was but seldom. Jer. Taylor , Great Exemplar, An Exhortation, § 12. It is doubtful whether there is any addition caused by emigration of white corpuscles from the blood-ve els. Proc. Roy. Soc ., XXXVIII. 91. emigrational (em-i-gra's hon-al), a. [