Gr. Hist. [ad. Gr. ξενηλασία, f. ξενηλατεῖν, f. ξένος foreigner + ἐλα- (ἐλαύνειν) to drive away.] A measure at Sparta for expulsion of foreigners.
1846. Grote, Greece, II. vi. II. 515. Nor were strangers permitted to stay at Sparta; they came thither it seems, by a sort of sufferance, but the uncourteous process called xenêlasy was always available to remove them.
