Eloign

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ɪˈlɔɪn/

Alternative forms

• eloin 17th-19th c.
• esloyne 16th-17th c.

Origin

From Anglo-Norman esloignier, Old French esloignier, from Late Latin exlongare.

Full definition of eloign

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To remove (something) to a distance.
• 1860, Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal UnionThose States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States.
2. (reflexive, now rare) To remove (oneself); to retire, move away (from).
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iv:From worldy cares himselfe he did esloyne,
  And greatly shunned manly exercise ....

Anagrams

• legion