[f. as next, on the analogy of ppl. adjs. from Lat. pa. pples.: see -ATE2.] A. adj. = EXPATRIATED. B. sb. An expatriated person.
1812. Shelley, Lett. to Hitchener, in Hogg, Life, II. 94. An Irishman has been torn from his wife and family because he was expatriate.
1818. Q. Rev., XIX. 55. Patriots and expatriates are alike the children of circumstances.
1829. I. Taylor, Enthus., x. 284. These expatriate millions [of Chinese] are accessible to instruction.
1871. B. Taylor, Faust (1875), II. III. 168. But a God took hold of her, The Expatriate.