eloign
verbUK /ɪˈlɔɪn/
Etymology From Middle English eloynen, from Anglo-Norman esloignier, Old French esloignier, from Vulgar Latin *exlongō, from Latin longe. Doublet of elongate.
1
Obsolete To remove (something) to a distance.
- 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.1860, Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union:
2
Archaic To remove (oneself); to retire, move away (from).
- From worldy cares himselfe he did esloyne, / And greatly shunned manly exercise [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: