EXULATE NOUN a person sent into or living in exile; a person compelled or choosing to live in a foreign country or a place not regarded as home ...c1470 obs. VERB to banish, to exile; to go into exile; to be in exile ...1535 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin ex(s)ulātus, past participle of ex(s)ulāre (to be in exile) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE c1470 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Thre hundreth eke. iii. score and one full clere, The commons rose an hūdreth thousād amoūted Of Kent and Essex, whiche that tyme surmounted The kynges power and all the hie estates, For whiche the lordes fled then as exulates, And lefte the kyng alone [then] in the toure With tharchbyshop of Cauntorbury there so, And the priour to been his gouernoure..." From: The Chronicle of Iohn Hardyng. Containing an Account of Public Transactions from the Earliest Period of English History to the Beginning of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth Together with the Continuation by Richard Grafton - John Hardyng
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Archives
September 2021
|