▪ I. † eˈmigrate, a.
[ad. L. ēmigrātus, pa. pple. of ēmigrāre: see next and -ate.]
That has migrated (from the body).
| 1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes 226 Let our souls emigrate meet. |
▪ II. emigrate, v.
(ˈɛmɪgreɪt)
[f. L. ēmigrāt- ppl. stem of ēmigrā-re, f. ē out + migrā-re to migrate.]
1. intr. To remove out of a country for the purpose of settling in another.
| 1778 Conversation in Boswell Johnson lxii. (1848) 574 They don't emigrate, till they could earn their livelihood..at home. 1782 T. Pownall Stud. Antiq. 60 (T.) The surplus parts of this plethorick [printed phletorick] body must emigrate. 1833 Wade Middle & Working Classes (1835) 342 It is only the..redundant portion of the community that ought to emigrate. 1881 W. Bence Jones in Macm. 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.
| 1841 W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. III. 352 The mountaineers..emigrate during the summer to the Tuscan coast. |
2. trans. To cause or assist to emigrate; to send out to settle in a foreign country.
| 1870 C. B. Clarke in Macm. Mag. Nov. 51/2 Pauper children..I would emigrate. 1886 Miss Rye in Pall Mall G. 20 Apr. 2 It is now twenty-five years since I first began to emigrate women. |