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Webster 1913 Edition

Xenelasia

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Xenˊe-la′si-a

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Noun.
[NL., from Gr.
ξενηλασία
expulsion of strangers.]
(Gr. Antiq.)
A Spartan institution which prohibited strangers from residing in Sparta without permission, its object probably being to preserve the national simplicity of manners.

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