pertaining to exile, esp. that of the Jews in Babylon
Also: exilian
Word origin
[1870–75; exile + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1870–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: asymmetric, billing, fifth wheel, immobilize, washout-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)
Examples of 'exilic' in a sentence
exilic
Bifurcation and ambivalence were not so much psychological flaws as structurally inevitable in these 'exilic' situations.