Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Archaic To remove or carry away to a distance, especially so as to conceal.
- v. Archaic To take (oneself) to a distance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- etc. See eloin, etc.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To remove afar off; to withdraw.
- v. To convey to a distance, or beyond the jurisdiction, or to conceal, as goods liable to distress.
Etymologies
- Middle English elongen, from Old French esloigner, from Late Latin ēlongāre : Latin ē-, ex-, ex- + Latin longus, long, distant; see del-1 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“I mean we have got people here on staff here at CNN, they are all over the city who race to get their 3-year-old to the best preschool which cost $20,000 a year so they can immediately start translating from the eloign (ph) from Greek to Chinese.”
“Those States have assume the right ofdeciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteenof the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they havepermitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign theproperty of the citizens of other States.”
“Those 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.”
“And this is the true exposition of the rule that the artist must first eloign himself from nature in order to return to her with full effect.”
“Those States have assumed 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.”
grammar "Those states ... have permitted the 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."
--Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina, December 24, 1860
Mar 12, 2008