▪ I. † ˈexul, n. Obs.
[a. L. ex(s)ul, f. ex- out + root sal- to go (cf. salīre to leap).]
A banished person; = exile n.2
| 1566 Gascoigne & Kinwelmarsh Iocasta in Child's Four Old Plays (1848) 140 Eteocles should sway the kingly mace, And Polynice as exul should departe. 1595 Spenser Col. Clout 806 They shall..as Exuls out of his court be thrust. 1600 Holland Livy ii. xix. 56 The regiment of Romane exuls. 1640 G. Sandys Christ's Passion iii. (1649) 29 You Legions of Heavens Exuls. |
▪ II. † ˈexul, v. Obs. rare—1.
[ad. L. ex(s)ul-āre: see exulate v.]
trans. = exile v.
| 1500–20 Dunbar None may Assure viii, Treuth stands barrit at the dure, And exulit is of the toun. |