ex·ile (ĕg'zīl', ĕk'sīl')
n.

1. 1. Enforced removal from one's native country.
   2. Self-imposed absence from one's country.
2. The condition or a period of living away from one's native country.
3. One who lives away from one's native country, whether because of expulsion or voluntary absence.

tr.v., -iled, -il·ing, -iles.
To send into exile; banish. See synonyms at banish.

[Middle English exil, from Old French, from Latin exilium, from exul, exsul, exiled person, wanderer.]

exilic ex·il'ic (ĭg-zĭl'ĭk, ĭk-sĭl'-) or ex·il'ian (ĭg-zĭl'yən, -zĭl'ē-ən, ĭk-sĭl'yən, -sĭl'ē-ən) adj.

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