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Evict


EVICT', verb transitive [Latin evinco, evictum; e and vinco, to conquer.]

1. To dispossess by a judicial process, or course of legal proceedings; to recover lands or tenements by law.

If either party be evicted for defect of the other's title.

2. To take away by sentence by law.

3. To evince; to prove. [Not used.]