Dictionary entry

Expatriate

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ex‐pa″tri‐ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Expatriated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Expatriating (?).] [LL. expatriatus, p. p. of expatriare; L. ex out + patria fatherland, native land, fr. pater father. See Patriot.] 1. To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

The expatriated landed interest of France. Burke.

2. Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: To withdraw from one's native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country.