Noah Webster
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.]