esloin
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See eloign.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]esloin (third-person singular simple present esloins, present participle esloining, simple past and past participle esloined)
- (obsolete) To remove; to banish; to withdraw.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 20:
- From worldy cares himselfe he did esloyne
- 1769, Samuel Johnson, “The Great Charter of King John”, in A History and Defence of Magna Charta, Dublin: James Williams, pages 213, 215:
- If any be diſſeized or eſloined by us, without lawful judgment of his peers, of lands, chattels, franchiſes, or of any right, we will, forthwith, reſtore the ſame….
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “esloin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)