Ex-pā'tri-āte, v. t.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. EXPATRIATED; p. pr. & vb. n. EXPATRIATING.] [L. Lat. expatriare, expatriatum, from Lat. ex, out, and patria (sc. terra), one's fatherland, native land, from patrius, fatherly, from pater, father; Fr. expatrier, It. spatriare.] To banish; reflexively, 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. “The expatriated landed interest of France.” Burke.