Exile
(Ex"ile) n. [OE. exil, fr. L. exilium, exsilium, fr. exsuil one who quits, or is banished from, his
native soil; ex out + solum ground, land, soil, or perh. fr.the root of salire to leap, spring; cf. F. exil. Cf.
Sole of the foot, Saltation.]
1. Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes,
voluntary separation from one's native country.
Let them be recalled from their exile.
Shak. 2. The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.
Thou art in exile, and thou must not stay.
Shak. Syn. — Banishment; proscription; expulsion.
Exile
(Ex"ile) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exiled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Exiling.] To banish or expel from one's own
country or home; to drive away. "Exiled from eternal God." Tennyson.
Calling home our exiled friends abroad.
Shak. Syn. — See Banish.
Exile
(Ex*ile") a. [L. exilis.] Small; slender; thin; fine. [Obs.] "An exile sound." Bacon.
Exilement
(Ex"ile*ment) n. [Cf. OF. exilement.] Banishment. [R.] Sir. H. Wotton.
Exilic
(Ex*il"ic) a. Pertaining to exile or banishment, esp. to that of the Jews in Babylon. Encyc. Dict.
Exilition
(Ex`i*li"tion) n. [L. exsilire to spring from; ex out + salire to spring, leap.] A sudden springing
or leaping out. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Exility
(Ex*il"ity) n. [L. exilitas: cf. F. exilité. See Exile, a.] Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness,
thinness. [R.] Paley.
Eximious
(Ex*im"ious) a. [L. eximius taken out, i. e. select, fr. eximere to take out. See Exempt.]
Select; choice; hence, extraordinary, excellent. [Obs.]
The eximious and arcane science of physic.
Fuller. Exinanite
(Ex*in"a*nite) v. t. [L. exinanitus, p. p. of exinanire; ex out (intens.) + inanire to make
empty, inanis, empty.] To make empty; to render of no effect; to humble. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.
Exinanition
(Ex*in`a*ni"tion) n. [L. exinanitio.] An emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation. [Obs.]
Fastings to the exinanition of spirits.
Jer. Taylor. Exist
(Ex*ist") v. i. [imp. & p. p. Existed; p. pr. & vb. n. Existing.] [L. existere, exsistere, to step
out or forth, emerge, appear, exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand still, fr.
stare to stand: cf. F. exister. See Stand.]
1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.
Who now, alas! no more is missed
Than if he never did exist.
Swift.
To conceive the world . . . to have existed from eternity.
South. 2. To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.
