Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To separate and remove to a distance.
  • To abscond.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb See eloign.

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  • verb Obsolete spelling of eloign.

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Examples

  • Congress it was determined to eloin the Russians from the Danube and its tributary lakes and streams.

    The Life of Gordon, Volume I Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890

  • 1 From worldly cares himself he did eloin, eloin > remove, withdraw (as if from legal jurisdiction) 2 And greatly shunned manly exercise,

    The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

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