Crossword clues for banished
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: banish)
a. (alternative form of banished English)
Wikipedia
Banished may refer to:
- Banished (TV series), a 2015 drama television series
- Banished (film), a 2007 documentary
- Banished (video game), a city-building strategy game by Shining Rock Software
- Banished (Halo), an alien faction in the Halo series
'Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America ' is a 2006 documentary film about four U.S. cities, which were part of many communities that violently forced African American families to flee in post-reconstruction America. The incidents took place in Texas, Missouri, Georgia and Indiana between 1886 and 1923. Banished was screened in competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Banished is a city-building strategy video game developed by Shining Rock Software. It was released for Microsoft Windows on February 18, 2014. The game focuses on careful resource management and survival as an isolated and growing society. Its gameplay can be compared with economic theory on sustainability and optimization.
Banished is a British drama television serial created by Jimmy McGovern. The seven-part serial first aired on 5 March 2015 on BBC Two and was inspired by events in the eighteenth century when Britain established a penal colony in Australia.
It has been announced that Banished will not be returning for a second series.
Usage examples of "banished".
We place watchers at the entrance of the path, where they wait to be sure that the one banished has gone through and is not lingering in the boundary only to return.
The watchers wait and watch for several weeks to be sure that the one banished has gone beyond in search of water and food, in search of his new life away from his people.
Kahlan was startled to hear, after all Owen had said, that he had become one of the banished.
For that, they were banished to the Old World, and in the Old World, where they tried to establish a new life, they were again all collected and banished to that place beyond those mountains—a place they were told was for the bandakar, the banished.
She was one of those people, people so hated that they had been banished from the rest of the people in their own land and sent into exile.
How could it seal the rest of them in, if they could send banished people through?
I suspect that those down here in the Old World who banished these people wanted to give them a way to get rid of criminals and so told the people about the existence of the pass.
When these people were banished here to the Old World, they may have already had at least the core of the same beliefs they hold now.
What had really been freed from Bandakar when the boundary failed was the trait of being born without any trace of the gift—that was why they had all been banished here in the first place.
Jennsen's anger at those who banished these people was justified, but her anger at Richard and the rest of them for having the same spark of the gift, which made them in that way the same, was not.
Tom looked as if he felt guilty for having been born with the spark of the gift that allowed him to see magic, that same spark possessed by those who had banished people like Jennsen.
I managed to find a people those like you didn't want to walk freely among their fellow man, a people cast out by the gifted, a people reviled for not having any spark of your precious gift of magic—a people hated and banished because your kind wasn't able to control them.
These people understood banishment, they understood it all too well, and they could sympathize with these banished people of so long ago.
Those banished people were intimately intertwined in the lives of nearly everyone.
But, because the barrier was there, and it was enemy territory beyond, the people of the New World never knew what became of those banished people.