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Implying or requiring rejection; rejectable. Cudworth.

Rejecting, or tending to reject.

Act of rejecting; matter rejected, or thrown away. Eaton.

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Obs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.

To reject; to cast off. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To protest against; to reject solemnly. [Obs.] I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul Refuse you for my judge. Shak.

The state of being rejected or cast out. [R.] An adjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever. Jer. Taylor.

To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge. [Obs.] Ash.

Rejection by judicial sentence. [R.] Knowles.

To renounce or reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate; as, to abjure errors. "Magic I here abjure." Shak.

To deny and reject; to abjure. Sir E. Sandys. Farrar.

One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything. [R.]

One who adheres to the letter of the Koran, rejecting all traditions.

mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

One of an ancient sect who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos. Shipley.

As if dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed. Shak.

ich are received by some Christians as an authentic part of the Holy Scriptures, but are rejected by others.

A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Chætodon rostratus.

ic ashes, or Volcanic ash, the loose, earthy matter, or small fragments of stone or lava, ejected by volcanoes.

of faith, formerly supposed to have been drawn up by Athanasius; but this opinion is now rejected, and the composition is ascribed by some to Hilary, bishop of Arles (5th century). It is a summary of what was called the orthodox faith.