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▪ I. expatriate, ppl. a. and n.|ɛksˈpeɪtrɪət|
[f. as next, on the analogy of ppl. adjs. from Lat. pa. pples.: see -ate2.]
A. adj. = expatriated.
B. n. An expatriated person. In modern usage, a person who lives in a foreign country.
1812Shelley Let. to Hitchener in Hogg Life II. 94 An Irishman has been torn from his wife and family..because he was expatriate. 1818Q. Rev. XIX. 55 Patriots and expatriates are alike the children of circumstances. 1829I. Taylor Enthus. x. 284 These expatriate millions [of Chinese] are accessible to instruction. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) II. iii. 168 But a God took hold of her, The Expatriate. 1902Daily Chron. 26 Feb. 3/5 ‘The Expatriates’ is a novel by Miss Lilian Bell... Its principal characters are rich Americans and titled Parisians, and the action takes place largely in Paris. 1961Economist 25 Mar. 1193/1 In Dar-es-Salaam all the talk is about ‘expatriates’, the technical name for the Europeans who run the country alongside or behind the African ministers. 1969Age (Melbourne) 24 May 2/4 Mr. Barnes said the Gordon estate sub-division would be one of several new area developments which would enable closer integration of Papuans and New Guineans and expatriates.
Add:[A.] b. Of, pertaining to, or being an expatriate; living in a foreign country esp. by choice.
1957R. E. Knoll (title) Robert McAlmon, expatriate publisher and writer. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVII. 436/2 Many of these countries had relied..on a limited supply of expatriate professional skills. 1980‘M. Fonteyn’ Magic of Dance 46 The major influence in the Western world was a large group of expatriate Russians who come under the generic heading ‘Ballets Russes’.
Hence exˈpatriatism n., the condition or fact of being an expatriate.
1970I. Ross Expatriates 266 Expatriatism could be more a state of mind than a matter of geography. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 1 June 608/1 He enjoyed at the State Department's expense a course in Jamesian expatriatism. 1987Economist 8 Aug. 28/2 The foundations of the Trib..are as deeply set in American ‘expatriatism’ as are those of The Times of London in Victorian diplomacy.
▪ II. expatriate, v.|ɛksˈpeɪtrɪeɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of late L. expatriāre, f. ex- (see ex- prefix1) + patri-a native land + -ate3. Cf. Fr. expatrier.]
1. trans. To drive (a person) away from (his) native country; to banish.
1817G. Chalmers in Churchyard's Chippes 163 Morton was thus expatriated. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. v. 113 This minister, after having been expatriated, outlived his great enemy. 1856Olmsted Slave States 261 He apologizes at length for proposing to expatriate the negroes.
2. refl. (rarely intr. for refl.) To withdraw from one's native country; in the Law of Nations, to renounce one's citizenship or allegiance.
1784Berington Hist. Abeillard (1787) iv. 187 He [Abeillard] indulged the romantick wish of expatriating himself for ever. 1804Colebrooke Husb. & Comm. Bengal (1806) 61 note, Another person..who has expatriated, or who has removed to other land. 1846Grote Greece i. v. (1862) I. 89 ætôlus..having been forced to expatriate from Peloponnêsus. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Ability Wks. (Bohn) II. 40 Sir John Herschel..expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope. 1889Phillimore Internat. Law (ed. 3) IV. 30 The status of aliens, and the capacity of subjects to expatriate themselves under the present English law.
Hence exˈpatriated ppl. a. exˈpatriating ppl. a., that expatriates (in sense 2 of vb.).
1768Sterne Sent. Journ., Pref. in Desobligeant, The balance of sentimental commerce is always against the expatriated adventurer. 1793Burke Rem. Policy Allies Wks. VII. 147 The expatriated landed interest of France. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 384 The ruined and expatriated Protestant Lord. 1846Grote Greece i. xvii. (1862) II. 420 The œkist and some of the expatriating chiefs. |