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.]
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