单词 | emigrate |
释义 | † emigrateadj. That has migrated (from the body). ΚΠ 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. viii. 228 Let our soules emigrate meet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021). emigratev. 1. a. intransitive. To remove out of a country for the purpose of settling in another. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > migration > emigration > emigrate [verb (intransitive)] transport?c1550 transplant1608 swarm1610 emigrate1782 out-migrate1953 1782 T. Pownall Treat. Study Antiq. 60 (T.) The surplus parts of this plethorick [printed phletorick] body must emigrate. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 192 They don't emigrate, till they could earn their livelihood..at home. 1833 J. Wade Hist. Middle & Working Classes (1835) 342 It is only the..redundant portion of the community that ought to emigrate. 1881 W. Bence Jones in Macmillan's Mag. XLIV. 137 In 1880, 96,000 persons emigrated from Ireland. b. In wider sense: To remove from one place of abode to another. rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > change residence remove1388 flit1504 shift1530 to pull up stakes1703 movea1707 emigrate1841 uproota1961 to pick up stakes1974 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 352 The mountaineers..emigrate during the summer to the Tuscan coast. 2. transitive. To cause or assist to emigrate; to send out to settle in a foreign country. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > migration > emigration > send as emigrant [verb (transitive)] emigrate1870 1870 C. B. Clarke in Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 51/2 Pauper children..I would emigrate. 1886 Miss Rye in Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Apr. 2 It is now twenty-five years since I first began to emigrate women. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.1654v.1782 |
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