Obs. [a. L. ex(s)ul, f. ex- out + root sal- to go (cf. salīre to leap).] A banished person; = EXILE sb.2

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1566.  Gascoigne & Kinwelmarsh, Iocasta, in Child’s Four Old Plays (1848), 140. Eteocles should sway the kingly mace, And Polynice as exul should departe.

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1595.  Spenser, Col. Clout, 896. They shall … as Exuls out of his court be thrust.

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1600.  Holland, Livy, II. xix. 56. The regiment of Romane exuls.

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1640.  G. Sandys, Christ’s Passion, III. (1649), 29. You Legions of Heavens Exuls.

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