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banish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Banish \Ban"ish\ (b[a^]n"[i^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Banished (b[a^]n"[i^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Banishing.] [OF. banir, F. bannir, LL. bannire, fr. OHG. bannan to summon, fr. ban ban. See Ban an edict, and Finish, v. t.]
To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power. ``We banish you our territories.''
--Shak.-
To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of.
How the ancient Celtic tongue came to be banished from the Low Countries in Scotland.
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To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel. ``Banish all offense.''
--Shak.Syn: To Banish, Exile, Expel.
Usage: The idea of a coercive removal from a place is common to these terms. A man is banished when he is forced by the government of a country (be he a foreigner or a native) to leave its borders. A man is exiled when he is driven into banishment from his native country and home. Thus to exile is to banish, but to banish is not always to exile. To expel is to eject or banish summarily or authoritatively, and usually under circumstances of disgrace; as, to expel from a college; expelled from decent society.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., banischen, from banniss-, extended stem of Old French banir "announce, proclaim; levy; forbid; banish, proclaim an outlaw," from a Germanic source (perhaps Frankish *bannjan "to order or prohibit under penalty"), or from Vulgar Latin cognate *bannire (see bandit). Related: Banished; banishing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (label en heading) ''To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.'' 2 #(context with simple direct object English) 3 #(context with ''from'' English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
To banish means to exile, to send away, or to expel.
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Usage examples of "banish".
I had him banished, along with every other shaman and allopathist and herbalist and charlatan that tried to treat my father .
Lydia banished her catalogue and, when Ambry offered his arm, found herself suddenly shy.
George, Secretary to the Antipope, and banished under sentence of death to the far reaches of the Bay Ghost and the Nady Ann?
So he was not banished, but to appease his daughter-in-law, the King banned his poetry and had every extant copy of his work destroyed.
The mammoths gradually became more confident, their bellies filling, and the steady rhythms of life banished their lingering grief over the loss of Shoot.
Severus mounted the tribunal, sternly reproached them with perfidy and cowardice, dismissed them with ignominy from the trust which they had betrayed, despoiled them of their splendid ornaments, and banished them, on pain of death, to the distance of a hundred miles from the capital.
The persecution was kept up until one of the banished Friends, John Bowne, reached Amsterdam and laid the case before the Company.
And if even these are not sufficient to banish the iniquity of the devil, then that affliction must be considered to be an expiatory punishment for sin, which should be borne in all meekness, as are other ills of this sort which oppress us that they may, as it were, drive us to seek God.
We reached Permatang, another Chinese village of some pretensions and population, near which are two very large two-storied Malay houses in some disrepair, in which the wife of the banished Mentri of Larut lives, with a number of slaves.
The Toh Puan Halimah, daughter of the exiled Laxamana of Perak, and chief wife of the banished Mentri of the State, had invested most of her private money in advances of this description, which, up to the time of British interference, was the favorite form of security, and she is now the largest claimant in the country for the repayment of her money.
Celia had suffered some unease on first learning that it was intended for pregnant women, to be taken early in their pregnancy when nausea and morning sickness were most prevalent onditions which Montayne would banish.
If there was any healing that would banish the murrain, it would have been found by now.
I went to Fouche to solicit the return to Paris of an officer of musqueteers who had been banished far from his family.
Thus Fool offenceless shall lie defenceless at thy mercy and, so lying, sleep until joyous day shall banish thy so virginal fears!
Also to tell you that Panda, or rather Cetewayo, for now Panda is but his Voice, since the Head must go where the Feet carry it, has spared Saduko at the prayer of Nandie and banished him from the land, giving him his cattle and any people who care to go with him to wherever he may choose to live from henceforth.