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Quotation dates: 1399-1420, 1498-1610
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Exile, Exyle, n. Also: exiil. [ME. exile (c 1300), exil, OF. exil, L. ex(s)ilium. In sense 2 corresponding to L. ex(s)ul.]
1. Exile, banishment. Chiefly with in or into (= in and into).(1) a1400 Legends of the Saints xlvi. 303.
Scho … fand fele thare that had bene In exile lang for Cristis sak c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 2209.
Sene [= since] he was thane in-to exile c1420 Wynt. vii. 518.
I wes … a quhille Owt off this land in gret exyle a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 155.
Allace, to lang ȝe stand now in exile a1500 Doug. K. Hart. 523.
How lang think ȝe to hald me in exile? c1568 Lauder Minor P. ii. 23.
Lawtie and luife ar in exile(2) c1420 Wynt. i. 120.
Quhen Adam wes … Put out of that stede in exile a1500 Henr. iii. 168/74.
This cair cotidiane, We thé exort, distort it in exyle 1513 Doug. ii. xii. 35.
Thé behuffis From hens to wend ful far into exile 1513 Ib. 71.
Thai sa mony weir Of … ȝong pepil to pas in exile abill(3) c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 1116.
Thrught exile for to be Inne other provynces lyving a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 1346.
Pane of ciuile lawe As hereschipe, exile, deid, and dismembering 1531 Bell. Boece II. 458.
For the curtesse that he gat thair in the time of his exile, he returnit in Ingland 1581 Satirical Poems xliii. 15.
Sum [destined] to promotioun, and sum to plaine exile 1600-1610 Melvill 202.
They ar seditius, … and thairfor man till exyll, banissment, preasone, and skaffauld
2. An exile. c1420 Wynt. i. 120 (C).
Quhen Adam wes within that quhile Put out of that steid exile
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