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Webster 1913 Edition
Emigrate
Em′i-grate
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Emigrated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Emigrating
.] To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home.
Forced to
emigrate
in a body to America. Macaulay.
They [the Huns] were
emigrating
from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths. J. H. Newman.
Em′i-grate
,Adj.
Migratory; roving.
[Obs.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Emigrate
EM'IGRATE
,Verb.
I.
To quit one country, state or region and settle in another; to remove from one country or state to another for the purpose of residence. Germans, Swiss, Irish and Scotch, emigrate, in great numbers, to America. Inhabitants of New England emigrate to the Western States.