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to 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.

Implying or requiring rejection; rejectable. Cudworth.

Rejecting, or tending to reject.

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

That can not be rejected; irresistible. Boyle.

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.