a. [f. EXILE sb. + -IC.] Of or pertaining to exile; esp. the exile, or period of the exile, of the Jews in Babylon.
[1871. F. Bolton, trans. Delitzsch’s Comm. Ps. cxviii. III. 223. It is without any doubt a post-exilic song.]
1888. S. R. Driver, Isaiah, v. 188. Whether … it be Isaiah or an exilic prophet who speaks.
1890. G. A. Smith, Isaiah, II. p. xvii. Almost every metaphor … may be referred to the book of Isaiah, and mostly to its exilic half.
