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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.

Banishment. [Obs.] Bailey.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Banishment. [Obs.] Milton.

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

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

The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile.

Recall, as from banishment. [Obs.]

on. The town is again beginning to be full, and the rusticated beauty sees an end of her banishment. Idler.

To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.

ndering without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism. Threatened away into banishment and vagrancy. Barrow.