Definition of Eloign

1. v. t. To remove afar off; to withdraw.

Definition of Eloign

1. Verb. (obsolete transitive) To remove (something) to a distance. ¹

2. Verb. (context: reflexive now rare) To remove (oneself); to retire, move away (from). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Eloign

1. to remove to a distant place [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eloign

elocutionists
elocutions
elocutive
elodea
elodeas
elodian
elodians
eloge
eloges
elogies
elogist
elogists
elogium
elogiums
elogy
eloign (current term)
eloignate
eloigned
eloigner
eloigners
eloigning
eloignment
eloignments
eloigns
eloin
eloined
eloiner
eloiners
eloining
eloinment

Literary usage of Eloign

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Collection of Statutes Connected with the General Administration of the by Great Britain, William David Evans, Anthony Hammond, Thomas Colpitts Granger (1836)
"privileged, or eloign them out of the realm, or else they would not c. 10. ,, a|so because that the King is inherited of the taking of such sureties ..."

2. Annotated Cases, American and English by H Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland (1918)
"Under that chapter, § 1181 provides : "Any person who shall eloign, ... To 'eloign' is to take away beyond the jurisdiction, or to conceal, so that under ..."

3. The Pleader's Guide: A Didactic Poem, Containing the Conduct of a Suit at by John Anstey, James Lambert High (1870)
"... Content his person to eloign, Or stay at home and cast essoign : But though the law in modern days Three barbarous tongues no more displays, ..."

4. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1888)
"99. deprive him of it; to eloign a person Mj from life means to slay him or * Assize Roll 6 hi. compass his death. 16) 2 m. 11 d. ' m. 1. ..."

5. The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and by John Proffatt, Abraham Clark Freeman (1886)
"... conspired with him to secrete and eloign said goods, and that they did secrete and eloign them, and converted them to their owu use. ..."

6. The Law Reports. Court of Exchequer: From Michaelmas Term, 1865, to Trinity by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, James Anstie, Arthur Charles, James Benjamin Redfoord Bulwer (1875)
"Heriot (E) : " Prescription to distrain for heriot custom if it be eloign'd is not good ; for he may have an action against whomsoever eloign'd it; ..."

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