eloigns

Verb

eloign (third-person singular simple present eloigns, present participle eloigning, simple past and past participle eloigned)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To remove (something) to a distance.
   • Those States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open...1860, Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union
2. (archaic, reflexive) To remove (oneself); to retire, move away (from).
   • From worldy cares himselfe he did esloyne, / And greatly shunned manly exercise [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC