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condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power. "We banish you our territories." Shak.

One who banishes.

The act of banishing, or the state of being banished. He secured himself by the banishment of his enemies. Johnson. Round the wide world in banishment we roam. Dryden.

To banish again.

Exiled voluntarily.

To banish; to expel. [Obs.] Mir. for Mag.

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.

Banishment. [Obs.] Bailey.

fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

f abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.

shment by the pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment. Suits are allowable in the spiritual courts for money agreed to be given as a commutation for penance. Blackstone.

to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use. It was judged that he should be banished and his whole estate confiscated and seized. Bacon.

Blameworthiness. [Obs.] Banished out of the realme . . . without culpe. E. Hall.

he rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.

To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish. [Obs.] A subject born in any state May, if he please, depatriate. Mason.

To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment. He told us he had been deported to Spain. Walsh.

The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation. In their deportations, they had often the favor of their conquerors. Atterbury.

To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate; as, to dispel a cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions. [Satan] gently raised their fainting courage, and dispelled their fears. Milton. I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night. Dryden…

To dislodge; to drive away; to banish. [Obs.] You have displaced the mirth. Shak.

To banish or drive from a country. [Obs.] Howell.