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Evicted

Evict \E*vict"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Evicting.] [L. evictus, p. p. of evincere to overcome completely, evict. See Evince.]

  1. (Law) To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.

    The law of England would speedily evict them out of their possession.
    --Sir. J. Davies.

  2. To evince; to prove. [Obs.]
    --Cheyne.

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evicted

vb. (en-past of: evict)

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Evicted (Flight of the Conchords)

"Evicted" is the final episode of the HBO comedy series Flight of the Conchords. This episode first aired in the United States on March 22, 2009.

Usage examples of "evicted".

The latter privilege was deemed to have been abridged by city officials who acted in pursuance of a void ordinance which authorized a director of safety to refuse permits for parades or assemblies on streets or parks whenever he believed riots could thereby be avoided and who forcibly evicted from their city union organizers who sought to use the streets and parks for the aforementioned purposes.

Master Croke ordered her to her seat but then started to look for the little cat himself to be sure he had evicted it.

Thus they were unemployed, and had to be evicted, and new favelas replaced the old ones, sprouting up like mushrooms.

Severin could, and would, have her forcibly evicted from his premises kept Pippin from conducting herself like a shrewish fishwife and throwing something, preferably large and very heavy, at him.

These were tactics the Army had planned to use against Warsaw Pact tanks if a shooting war had erupted during the Cold War, and they seemed optimal for the sort of desert war the United States had waged when it evicted Iraqi troops from Kuwait.

Troopers evicted the members of a commune in Texas, beating the boys with slapjacks, grabbing handcuffed girls by the pussy, smacking little kids around, and killing the stock, all of which Prairie, breathing deliberately, made herself watch.

He was not allowed to write in Bonita Vista, and there was a good likelihood he would soon be evicted from his little teapot museum office.

That number had been reduced by about a third after the Artifact War, when Brighter Suns was created in the wake of the collapse of the Outward Policorps, and the population was evicted from half the habitat while the Powers were brought in behind a wall of security and biologic shields.

Trixie was evicted, the cups were laid aside, Mister Snaith reversed his cloak and straightened his toupee.

The Basts had just been evicted for not paying their rent, and had wandered no one knew whither.

Back in Kurdistan, the KDP pressed its advantage, taking many PUK towns, only to be stopped at as-Sulaymaniyyah by strong defenses and then evicted from its territory altogether in a counteroffensive that October after the PUK had regrouped and rearmed with weapons from Iran.

By the time the inspectors were evicted from Iraq, a slew of additional restrictions, including those negotiated by Secretary General Kofi Annan, had given up key prerogatives, and resulted in a situation where the inspectors could see only facilities that Iraq wanted them to see.

Rufrius evacuated the camp in Rhakotis and evicted every tenant in the grand houses on either side of Royal Avenue, then stuffed the mansions with troops.

This eventually proved to be an accumulation of annual payments from thousands of poor homesteaders whose remittances had never been recorded, and who, in many a case, would surely be evicted from their lands on score of non-payment of dues.

Thibodaux, which had become a kind of refugee village where hundreds of strikers, evicted from their plantation shacks, gathered, penniless and ragged, carrying their bed clothing and babies.