exilementt (eksilment)

[ Fitz Osborn was discarded into a foreign service, for a pretty shadow of exilement . Sir H. Wotton, Reliquiæ, p. 103. exilian (eg-zil'i-an), a. [L. exilium , exile, + -an.] Pertaining to exile or banishment; specifically, belonging to the period of the exile of the Jews to Babylon. The Me ianic promise binds together the primitive, the patriarchal, the Mosaic, the prophetic, the exilian , and the post- exilian periods. Schaff , Christ and Christianity, p. 46. ne . Bailey, 1727. [Rare.] exilel (ek's il, formerly eg-zil'), n. [ salient, and cf. exult, exilition; le prob. lit. one driven from his native soil, All these pui ant legions whose exile Hath emptied heaven. Milton , P. L., i. 632. 2. Residence in a foreign land or a remote place enforced by the government of which one has been a subject or citizen, or by stre of circumstances; separation from one's native or chosen home or country and friends; the condition of living in banishment. You little think that all our life and Age Is but an Exile and Pilgrimage. Sylvester , tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Vocation. He [Carolus Magnus] sent him [the King of the Longobards] captive to Liege,... where he died in Exile . Coryat , Crudities, I. 105. His [Clarendon's] long exile had made him a stranger in the country of his birth. Macaulay, Sir William Temple. 31. Removal. Fermors during their term shall not make waste, sale, nor exile of house, woods, or men, nor of anything belonging to the tenements that they have to ferm without special license. Statute of Marl bridge. 4. [In this sense an accom. of F. exilé, an exile, prop. pp. of exiler, exile (see exile, v.), to exile above; or an accom. of the L. exul, an exile: see exul.] A banished person; a person expelled from his country or home by authority, or separated from it by nece ity: as, Siberian exiles; a band of exiles. The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit. Isa. li. 14. The pensive exile , bending with his woe, To stop too fearful, and too faint to go. Goldsmith, Traveller. =Syn. 1. Proscription, expulsion, ostracism. exilel (ek's il, formerly eg-zil'), v. t.; pret. and pp. exiled, ppr. exiling. [ exilian. IMG:content-0895.png:[blocks in formation]