repellere

repellere [CL] 1 (of person or physical force) to push or thrust away from one, drive back. b to push or drive back, repel (enemy or assailant). c to expel, to drive out or away; d (w. abstr. obj.; cf. et. 5c infra). e (transf.) to expel or drive out (from office or status). refontare [l. refrontare], a fonte [l. fronte] ~ellit GlC R 115; ablactati sunt et a matre ~ulsi, quia a lacte pietatis nutriri noluerunt Alcuin Exeg. 633D; non venit ad montem, sed ~ulsum vi ventorum Bern. Comm. Aen. 85.  b ~ellunt barbari ad mare, ~ellit mare ad barbaros Gildas EB 20; cives ‥ ad defensionem promptissimi ‥ eos aliquantulum ~ulerunt Gir. EH I 3 p. 232; 1255 cum forestarii manus ‥ domibus imposuissent ad illas ‥ prosternendas, dicti C. ‥ et R. ‥ ipsos vi ~ulserunt SelPlForest 18; eos transfugando usque prope Berwicum ‥ ~ulsit Plusc. X 15 p. 340.  c tantum facinus ‥ ut regem a regno proprio ~ellerent Asser Alf. 12; quosdam Grecie philosophos ‥ ~ulsit [rex Johannes], nec mutire permittebat Oxnead Chr. 136.  d si ‥ / ‥ fidem teneant ‥ / ‥ heresimque omnem de corde repellant Godeman 29.  e contra fas a suo episcopatu ~ulsus Bede HE V 19 p. 328; repulsam dicimus injuriam; ~elluntur homines ab honore GlC R 163. 2 to fend off, repel (weapon); b (attack or hostile force); c (fig.). d to counter, refute (argument). qui prius cuncta squamis tela velut obliqua scutorum testudine ~pulit [vv. ll. ~ulsit, ~ulit] Lib. Monstr. III 9.  b ad ~ellendas ‥ crebras supra dictarum gentium irruptiones praedasque Gildas EB 22; ad ~ellendam vim hostium castra muniuntur Bede HE I 5 p. 16; s1411 vires aggregate, que sufficiant ad ~ellandum [sic] suam violenciam Wals. YN 433.  c militarem loricam qua tociens mater armata nequicias temptatoris et motus carnis ~ulerat, ferens V. Edm. Rich C 602.  d ad predictas instancias ~ellendas dicunt isti ‥ Ockham Dial. 592. 3 to ward or fend off (unpleasant circumstance or phenomenon, actual or potential ill or hardship), repel. sic tamen horrendas noctis repello latebras Aldh. Aen. 52 (Candela) 7; tempestates potestatum aeriarum a sua suorumque lesione ‥ orationibus ‥ ~ellere consuerat Bede HE II 7; ac durum frigus miserans hiememque repello Hwætberht Aen. 20 (Domus) 2; nunc ego verba tenens nunc sepe repello tenebras Ib. 31 (Cera) 4; vestimenta ‥ que frigus ~ellant Ailr. Inst. Inclus. 13; 1415 vobis latore presencium viginti libras destinans indigencia ~elenda [sic] FormOx 429. 4 to seek to prevent (from doing something), deter, resist. c1240 qua discretione ‥ ~ellitis manum extergere non solum volentis sed et potentis?  Gros. Ep. 90 p. 281. 5 to throw or cast away (object); b (transf.) to spurn, reject, repudiate, renounce (person); c (abstr. obj.); d (in gl.). ruptum est a corpore vinculum, et procul ab eo ~ulsum ita tenus ut, si obstaculum quoddam non defenderet seniorem illius loci, in capite ejus esset projectum Byrht. V. Ecgwini 389 (recte 379).  b quem angelus ‥ in ignem rejecit; dicebatque hostis malignus “nolite ~ellere quem ante suscepistis” Bede HE III 19 p. 166; semper ~ulsi repetitores ambire non desinunt Alb. Lond. DG 6. 5.  c pro Pelagiana heresi ‥ cavenda ac ~ellenda, in eadem illos epistula admonere curavit Bede HE II 19; apocriforum deleramenta ‥ penitus abdicare [gl.: ~ellere] Aldh. VirgP 24 p. 256.  d abdicare, ~ellere vel refutare GlC A 37; repudiare, ~ellere Ib. R 46; repudiare, ~ellere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 509. 6 (leg.) to debar, exclude (from position, claim, or course of action). videtur quod omnis procurator ~elli possit nisi prius dominus juret de calumpnia Ric. Angl. Summa 18 p. 22; [testes] qui vero ~elluntur, exprimantur Ib. 30 p. 42; 1384 dicit quod ipse per aliqua preallegata ab accione sua ~elli non debet PlRCP 495 r. 158; dicit quod ipse per aliqua preallegata ab execucione ‥ habenda precludi sive ~elli non debet Ib. r. 331. 7 (in gl.). evellit, ~ulit GlC E 334; lusit, repellit [? l. fefellit] Ib. L 276.