Emigrate \Em"i*grate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emigrated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Emigrating.]
[L. emigratus, p. p. of emigrare to
remove, emigrate; e out + migrare to migrate. See Migrate.]
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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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