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expellere [CL] 1 to drive out, expel, send away (person or animal, also fig.). b (leg.) to banish, exile, outlaw. c (p. ppl. as sb. m.) exiled person, outlaw. d to drive off (with stick). episcopus ‥ ~ens nos ab eo oravit V. Cuthb. IV 5; 957 (14c) Adam ‥ expulsus in has aerumpnosas orbis plagas CS 995; utrum expediat eum vel diutius detineri vel de monasterio ~i Lanfr. Const. 166; veterem hominem ‥ concussit, excussit, et expulit ut jam vetustatis nec compareret vestigium H. Bos. Thom. III 6 p. 193; sic et adulti jam filii ‥ a patrum domiciliis ‥ ~untur Gir. TH I 12 p. 35; 1204 (v. dispendere 2b); rigide ~e turpem mastinum [ME: hat him ut] et abige eum AncrR 109; canes ~ere de ecclesia Paul. Angl. ASP 1529; Bad. Aur. 207 (v. confragum b).  b exulat, i‥. alienatur, fugatur, ~itur, wræclastaþ GlH E 758; si hominem occiderit, sit exul et cum clamore ~atur ab omnibus qui Dei justitiam volunt (Inst. Cnuti) GAS 347.  c 9‥ †extori [? l. exteri or extorres], expulsi, wræccan WW; si quis fecerit opus expulsi quod Angli vocant utlages weorc, videat rex de pace (Inst. Cnuti) GAS 317 (cf. (Cons. Cnuti) ib.: exlegis).  d 1338 expulsit ‥ Johannem le Harpour in dorso cum puncto baculi ut surgeret de magistro suo et ipsum vulneravit cum puncto ‥ baculi in dorso SelCCoron 44. 2 to throw out (rubbish). b to expel (contents or secretions). c to banish (pain); d (abstr.). paupercula vidua volens domum suam mundare colligit primo grossiora et ~it [ME: schuveð hit ‥ ut] AncrR 119.  b superfluitates quas natura per singulos menses ~it, unde menstrua nominantur Quaest. Salern. B 21; Ib. 6 (v. eicere 3c); Gilb. VI 268. 1 (v. coadunatio 1a); Bacon XI 281 (v. gummi a).  c ille ‥ ab oculo glaucomiam et algemam expulsit Byrht. V. Ecgwini 364; tactu manuum suarum per signum sancte crucis dolores ~ebat Dominic V. Ecgwini I 16.  d expulsa diaboli tyrannide Bede HE IV 14 p. 233; expuleras tenebras omnibus inque locis Wulf. Poems 11; ut inimici a nobis ~eres [AS: afirdest] potestatem Rit. Durh. 23; hostilitas ~itur, pax jampridem expulsa revocatur Chr. Battle f. 90; inanitatem ~o Alex. Cant. Dicta 3 p. 121; Ockham Pol. I 164 (v. exorcismus a). 3 to reject, rebut, defeat. 13‥ materia allegata in placito per defendentem ad ~endam accionem querentis MGL I 177 (cf. ib. 288).

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