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To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language. "Eyes ejecting flame." H. Brooke.

Matter ejected; material thrown out; as, the ejecta of a volcano; the ejecta, or excreta, of the body.

The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. "Vast ejection of ashes." Eustace. "The ejection of a word." Johnson.

A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes.

One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.

To cast down. [Obs. or Archaic] Christ dejected himself even unto the hells. Udall. Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look. Fuller.

Excrements; as, the dejecta of the sick.

Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance. -- De*ject"ed*ly, adv. -- De*ject"ed*ness, n.

One who casts down, or dejects.

The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson.

Dejectedly. [Obs.]

Having power, or tending, to cast down.

That which is voided; excrements. Arbuthnot.

That can not be rejected; irresistible. Boyle.

o throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson (More's Utopia). Reject me not from among thy children. Wisdom ix. 4.

Capable of being, or that ought to be, rejected.

Things thrown out or away; especially, things excreted by a living organism. J. Fleming.

Not chosen orr received; rejected. [Obs.] "Profane, rejectaneous, and reprobate people." Barrow.

One who rejects.

Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.