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a⋅roint

  [uh-roint]
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–verb (imperative) Obsolete.
begone: Aroint thee, varlet!
Origin:
1595–1605; of uncert. orig.
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a·roint   (ə-roint')   
tr.v.   Archaic
Used in the imperative to express an order of dismissal: "Aroint thee, witch!" (Shakespeare).

[Origin unknown.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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aroint 
intr. verb, 1605, used by Shakespeare (only in imperative: "begone!"), obsolete and of obscure origin. "[T]he subject of numerous conjectures, none of which can be said to have even a prima facie probability." [OED]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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