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
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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
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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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