[f. ppl. stem of late L. expatriāre, f. ex- (see EX- pref.1) + patri-a native land + -ATE3. Cf. Fr. expatrier.]
1. trans. To drive (a person) away from (his) native country; to banish.
1817. G. Chalmers, in Churchyard’s Chippes, 163. Morton was thus expatriated.
1828. D’Israeli, Charles I., I. v. 113, note. This minister, after having been expatriated, outlived his great enemy.
1856. Olmsted, Slave States, 261. He [Jefferson] apologizes at length for proposing to expatriate the negroes.
2. refl. (rarely intr. for refl.) To withdraw from one’s native country; in the Law of Nations, to renounce one’s citizenship or allegiance.
1784. Berington, Hist. Abeillard (1787), IV. 187. He [Abeillard] indulged the romantick wish of expatriating himself for ever.
1804. Colebrooke, Husb. & Comm. Bengal (1806), 61, note. Another person … who has expatriated, or who has removed to other land.
1846. Grote, Greece, I. v. (1862), I. 89. Ætôlus … having been forced to expatriate from Peloponnêsus.
1856. Emerson, Eng. Traits, Ability, Wks. (Bohn), II. 40. Sir John Herschel … expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope.
1889. Phillimore, Internat. Law (ed. 3), IV. 30. The status of aliens, and the capacity of subjects to expatriate themselves under the present English law.
Hence Expatriated ppl. a. Expatriating ppl. a., that expatriates (in sense 2 of vb.).
1768. Sterne, Sent. Journ., Pref. in Desobligeant. The balance of sentimental commerce is always against the expatriated adventurer.
1793. Burke, Rem. Policy Allies, Wks. 1815, VII. 147. The expatriated landed interest of France.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 384. The ruined and expatriated Protestant Lord.
1846. Grote, Greece, I. xvii. (1862), II. 420. The œkist and some of the expatriating chiefs.
