depatriate

English

Etymology

From Latin de- + patria (“one's country”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diːˈpætɹɪ(j)eɪt/

Verb

depatriate (third-person singular simple present depatriates, present participle depatriating, simple past and past participle depatriated)

1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish.
   • 1782, William Mason, The Dean and the Squire:

     A subject born in any state / May, if he please, depatriate.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “depatriate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)