[a. F. exportation, ad. L. exportātiōn-em, n. of action f. exportāre: see EXPORT.] The action of exporting.
† 1. a. gen. Carrying out from a place. b. The conveying or sending (persons) out of the country.
a. 1610. Healey, Theophrastus, Ostentation (1636), 80. He [Antipater], when there was granted a free exportation [from Macedonia], when the courtesie was offered him, refused it.
1666. J. Smith, Old Age, 239. The Instruments of the vital Faculty, which serve for … exportation and rejection of the same [bloud and spirits].
1725. H. Bourne, Antiq. Vulgares, ii. 15. They were wont to sit by it [the corpse], from the Time of its Death till its Exportation to the Grave.
1774. Pennant, Tour Scot. in 1772, 53. The melancholy and pernicious exportation of … natives of Great Britain.
1789. Hist., in Ann. Reg., 142. It [Stanhope’s bill] also repealed the laws … prohibiting the exportation of women.
2. Comm. The sending out (of commodities) from one country to another.
1641. Nicholas Papers (Camden), I. 20. Statutes restrayning the exportacion of ye native commodities of that kingdome.
1678. Marvell, Corr., Wks. I. 362. The Committee against Exportation of Wooll sate yesternight.
1797–8. Wellington, in Owen, Disp., 779. The exportation of British manufactures, excepting of military stores, ought to be free.
1870. R. Anderson, Missions Amer. Board, II. xxxi. 271. Wheat, and other products for exportation.
transf. 1807. Med. Jrnl., XVII. 119. An indigenous and local disease … capable of exportation to distant countries.
3. quasi-concr. a. Something carried out. † b. That which is exported; pl. commodities exported, exports (obs.).
a. 1817. Coleridge, Biog. Lit., II. 184. Feverishness and want of appetite, which … was certainly not decreased by the exportations from the cabin.
b. 1664–5. Pepys, Diary (1879), III. 109. If the exportations exceed the importations.
1673. Temple, Ess. Ireland, Wks. 1731, I. 112. The Native Commodities or common easie Manufactures … make up the Exportation of this Kingdom.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., 131. As much … as they now receive in Exchange for their said Exportations.
