esloin

English

Etymology

See eloign.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪsˈlɔɪn/, /ɛsˈlɔɪn/

Verb

esloin (third-person singular simple present esloins, present participle esloining, simple past and past participle esloined)

1. (obsolete) To remove, banish or withdraw.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 20:

     From worldy cares himselfe he did esloyne

   • 1769, Samuel Johnson, “The Great Charter of King John”, in A History and Defence of Magna Charta, Dublin: James Williams, pages 213, 215:

     If any be diſſeized or eſloined by us, without lawful judgment of his peers, of lands, chattels, franchiſes, or of any right, we will, forthwith, reſtore the ſame….

References

• “esloin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• lesion, enoils, elison, oleins, insole, onlies, Elison, eloins, selion