Mĕt'ic or Mē'tic, n.

(Synop., § 130), n. [Gr. μέτοικος, changing one's abode, emigrating and settling elsewhere, an alien who was suffered to settle in a foreign city, from μετά, indicating change, and οἶκος, house, abode, dwelling; Lat. metæcus, Fr. métèce, métèque, métécien.] A sojourner; a resident stranger in a Grecian city or place. Mitford.