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The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment.

To remove; to banish; to withdraw; to avoid; to eloign. [Obs.] From worldly cares he did himself esloin. Spenser.

d separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country. Let them be recalled from their exile. Shak.

Banishment. [R.] Sir. H. Wotton.

Pertaining to exile or banishment, esp. to that of the Jews in Babylon. Encyc. Dict.

To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of. The expatriated landed interest of France. Burke.

The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance. Expatriation was a heavy ransom to pay for the rights of their minds and souls. Palfrey.

To drive away from one's country; to banish. Forewasted all their land, and them expelled. Spenser. . He shell expel them from before you . . . and ye shell possess their land. Josh. xxiii. 5.

e fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest. Your kindness banishes your fear, Resolved to fix forever here. Waller.

To banish; to drive out; to expel. [Obs.] "Appetite flemeth discretion." Chaucer.

One who, or that which, banishes or expels. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Banishment. [Obs.] Milton.

, or an indifferent spectator of the contending parties, should be condemned to perpetual banishment. Addison.

; blamelessness. The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails. Shak. Banished from man's life his happiest life, Simplicity and spotless innocence! Milton.

Macaulay. They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished. Holland.

Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.

To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens. Grote.

A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.

former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy. Burrill.

ylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents. Robert Vere, Earl of Oxford, . . . was banished the realm, and proscribed. Spenser.