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banishing
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
n. A magical ritual intended to remove negative spiritual influences. vb. (present participle of banish English)
Wikipedia
In ceremonial magic, banishing refers to one or more rituals intended to remove non-physical influences ranging from spirits to negative influences. Although banishing rituals are often used as components of more complex ceremonies, they can also be performed by themselves.
In Wicca and various forms of neopaganism, banishing is performed before casting a Circle in order to purify the area where the ritual or magick is about to take place. In his books on Nocturnal Witchcraft, for example, Konstantinos recommends performing banishings regularly, in order to keep the magical workspace free of negativity, and to become proficient in banishing before attempting acts that are much more spiritually taxing on the body, such as magical spellworking. Banishing can be viewed as one of several techniques of magick, closely related to ritual purification and a typical prerequisite for consecration and invocation.
For "actual workings" Aleister Crowley recommends a short, general banishing, with a comment that "in more elaborate ceremonies it is usual to banish everything by name."
Crowley also recommended that a banishing ritual be done at least once daily by Thelema in Liber Aleph vel CXI.
In the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram ( LBRP for shorthand) must be learned by the Neophyte before moving on to the next grade ( Zelator).
Usage examples of "banishing".
Although he wanted to do the banishings immediately, the chamber had secrets to tell him which would be lost once he did the working.
Even his swordbelt was wet, and I had just enough time to wonder why a magic user would be wearing a swordbelt before he moved his hand in a banishing gesture.
Damon with a gently banishing gesture, and both children vanished into wisps of dream.
One of the tall, robed women in the vulture headdresses was there with her blazing sword, but Acquilara made some strange banishing gesture and the woman in the vulture headdress exploded into blue light.
Desperately, he tried, to Work - there was solid ground under him, therefore there must be earth-fae accessible - and he managed the ghost of a Banishing, barely enough to dissipate the fear directly before him, not enough to keep its fringes from affecting the rest of his party.
Once Senzei thought he saw a face begin to form on a glistening outcropping of rock - but he quickly muttered the key to a Banishing, and the face disappeared.
Let him at each of these 24 banishings make three circumambulations widdershins, with the signs of Horus and Harpocrates in the East as he passes it.