As used in a statute relating to service in the militia, this term does not imply an absolute freedom from all physical ailment. It imports an absence of those palpable and visible defects which evidently incapacitate the person from performing the ordinary duties of a soldier. Darling v. Bowen, 10 Vt. 152. Ability to perform ordinary labor is not the test. Town of Marlborough v. Sisson, 26 Conn. 57

In ancient English law. A renunciation of one’s country, a species of self-imposed banishment, under an oath never to return to the kingdom unless by permission. 4 Bl.Comm. 332; Avery v. Everett, 110 N.Y. 317, 18 N.E. 148, 1 L.R.A. 264. See Abjure.

ABJURE.
To renounce, or abandon, by or upon oath. See Abjuration. A departure from the state without the intention of returning, and not a renunciation of one’s country, upon an oath of perpetual banishment, as the term originally implied. Mead v. Hughes, 15 Ala. 148, 1 Am.Rep. 123

A naturalized citizen of the United States, must declare that he doth renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity which he owes to any foreign prince, state, etc. 8 U.S.C.A. § 735