<h1>Exiguous</h1> <Xpage=523>
<hw>Ex*ig"u*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>exiguus</ets>.]</ety> <def>Scanty; small; slender; diminutive. <mark>[R.]</mark> "<i>Exiguous</i> resources." <i>Carlyle.</i></def> -- <wordforms><wf>Ex*ig"uous*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt> <mark>[R.]</mark></wordforms>
<h1>Exile</h1> <Xpage=523>
<hw>Ex"ile</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>exil</ets>, fr. L. <ets>exilium</ets>, <ets>exsilium</ets>, fr. <ets>exsuil</ets> one who quits, or is banished from, his native soil; <ets>ex</ets> out + <ets>solum</ets> ground, land, soil, or perh. fr.the root of <ets>salire</ets> to leap, spring; cf. F. <ets>exil</ets>. Cf. <er>Sole</er> of the foot, <er>Saltation</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>
<blockquote>Let them be recalled from their <b>exile</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>
<p><b>2.</b> <def>The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.</def>
<blockquote>Thou art in <b>exile</b>, and thou must not stay. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>
<syn>Syn. -- Banishment; proscription; expulsion.</syn>
<h1>Exile</h1> <Xpage=523>
<hw>Ex"ile</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Exiled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Exiling</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away.</def> "<i>Exiled</i> from eternal God."
<i>Tennyson.</i>
<blockquote>Calling home our <b>exiled</b> friends abroad. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>
<syn>Syn. -- See <er>Banish</er>.</syn>
<h1>Exile</h1> <Xpage=523>
<hw>Ex*ile"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>exilis</ets>.]</ety> <def>Small; slender; thin; fine.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "An <i>exile</i> sound."
<i>Bacon.</i>
<h1>Exilement</h1> <Xpage=523>
<hw>Ex"ile*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>exilement</ets>.]</ety> <def>Banishment.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>
<i>Sir. H. Wotton.</i>
<h1>Exilic</h1> <Xpage=523>
<hw>Ex*il"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to exile or banishment, esp. to that of the Jews in Babylon.</def>
<i>Encyc. Dict.</i>
<h1>Exilition</h1> <Xpage=523>
<hw>Ex`i*li"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>exsilire</ets> to spring from; <ets>ex</ets> out + <ets>salire</ets> to spring, leap.]</ety> <def>A sudden springing or leaping out.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>
<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>
<h1>Exility</h1> <Xpage=523>
<hw>Ex*il"ity</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>exilitas</ets>: cf. F. <ets>exilit\'82</ets>. See <er>Exile</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <def>Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>
<i>Paley.</i>
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