v. [back-formation from next.]
1. trans. To give up (a fugitive foreign criminal) to the proper authorities, in pursuance of a treaty.
1864. Sala, in Daily Tel., 29 July, 5/5. Nothing is said about the Emperor of the French being summoned to extradite the men brought into Cherbourg by the French pilot-boats.
1885. Law Times, LXXX. 116/1. The power of criminal courts of this country to extradite prisoners charged with the commission of offences in foreign countries.
b. transf.
1883. J. Payn, Thicker than Water, III. 240. She was extradited in a vehicle by herself to the great relief of her fellow culprits.
c. To obtain the extradition of.
1883. Chicago Advance, 8 March. The effort of England to extradite Sheridan, of the Irish World, New York.
1889. North. Star, 28 Feb., 3/1. The Home Office are taking measures for extraditing ‘Pigott.’
2. Psychol. To localize (a sensation) at a distance from the center of sensation. rare.
1887. W. James, in Mind, April, 207. The next factor is the particular kind of sensation to be extradited.
Hence Extradited ppl. a.
1889. Child, Eng. & Sc. Ball., III. VI. clxxvi. 410/2. They land Lord Percy at Berwick, a deported, ‘extradited’ man!
