Crossword clues for outcast
outcast
- Harte's John Oakhurst, for one
- Persona non grata
- A person who is rejected (from society or home)
- Pariah
- Excluded unfashionable actors
- One rejected by group
- Wretch finished with model
- Reveal secrets of company in exile
- Rejected as unfashionable by an exclusive social class say
- Reject unfashionable shed
- Reject blooming actors
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outcast \Out"cast`\, a. [Cf. Sw. utkasta to cast out.]
Cast out; degraded. ``Outcast, rejected.''
--Longfellow.
Outcast \Out"cast`\, n.
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One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond.
The Lord . . . gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
--Ps. cxlvii. 2. A quarrel; a contention. [Scot.]
--Jamieson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
That has been cast out; banished, ostracized. (from 14th c.) n. One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah. (from 14th c.) v
To cast out; to banish. (from 14th
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WordNet
adj. excluded from a society [syn: friendless]
Wikipedia
Outcast is an action-adventure video game developed by Belgian developer Appeal and released by Infogrames for Windows in 1999. The game was critically acclaimed, for instance it was named the "Adventure Game of the Year" by GameSpot in 1999. In 2001 an Appeal developed sequel, called Outcast II: The Lost Paradise, was never finished due to bankruptcy. In 2010 the game was re-released into the digital distribution on gog.com. In 2014 Outcast was released again as HD remake after the original developers acquired the franchise's IP again.
Outcast was a controversial ' queer' magazine in the United Kingdom. It was launched as a non-profitmaking project by Chris Morris in 1999.
Contributors included Mayor Ken Livingstone, Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy, Foreign Office minister Ben Bradshaw, Mark Simpson, John Hein, David Borrow and Peter Tatchell (amongst many others).
Outcast(s) may refer to:
- Outcast (person), a person with social stigma or untouchability
Outcast is the eighth studio album by German thrash metal band Kreator. It was released by G.U.N. Records in 1997. This album featured more gothic rock and industrial influences than earlier Kreator, retaining little of the thrash metal from previous years.
Outcast is the fifth album by Metal band, Ektomorf.
Outcast, is a 1991 novel by Baghdad-born Mizrahi Israeli author Shimon Ballas. The novel was translated into English in 2005.
Outcast is a novel by Aaron Allston that was released on March 24, 2009. It is the first novel in the Fate of the Jedi series and published as a hardcover.
An outcast is someone who is rejected or 'cast out', as from home or society, or in some way excluded, looked down upon, or ignored. In common English speech an outcast may be anyone who doesn't fit in with normal society, which can contribute to a sense of isolation.
Outcast is a 2010 supernatural thriller film directed by Colm McCarthy and starring James Nesbitt.
Outcast is the fourth book in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series by Michelle Paver. There are six books in the series. Outcast is illustrated by Geoff Taylor.
Outcast is a 2014 American-Chinese-Canadian action film directed by Nick Powell in his directorial debut and written by James Dormer. It stars Nicolas Cage, Hayden Christensen, Liu Yifei, Ji Ke Jun Yi and Andy On.
The film was slated for release on September 26, 2014 in China but was postponed to April 3, 2015. The film received negative reviews from critics.
Outcast is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Chester Withey. The film starred Elsie Ferguson (in her next to last silent) and David Powell. William Powell has a small supporting part in this which was his third film.
The movie is based on the play of the same name by Hubert Henry Davies and had been performed on Broadway in 1914 with Ferguson in the lead. The story was filmed in 1916 as The World and the Woman with Jeanne Eagels, afterwards as Outcast with Ann Murdock. After Ferguson's version it was filmed as Outcast with Corinne Griffith and Edmund Lowe in a Vitaphone version in 1928, and finally was the basis of The Girl From 10th Avenue (1935) starring Bette Davis and released by Warner Brothers.
Outcast is a historical novel for children written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published in 1955.
It takes place in Roman Britain and tells the tale of an orphaned Roman child who is shipwrecked on a coast of Dumnonia in Celtic Britain, outside of Roman rule. He is adopted by a childless couple, grows up within the tribe, eventually leaving to rejoin Roman society, and being carried along by a chain of events all the way to Rome and ultimately back to Britain. Like many Sutcliff novels, the plot is driven by the protagonist's search for identity amidst several cultures in which he feels himself to be an outcast.
Outcast is a 1937 American film directed by Robert Florey.
Warren William plays a Baltimore doctor accused of murder. Although acquitted, he becomes a pariah and his practice is ruined, so he transplants himself to a small Wisconsin town. Confiding with a sympathetic retired lawyer ( Lewis Stone), the doctor just begins to build back his practice, his self-respect, and a relationship with a local girl ( Karen Morley) when his past follow him in the form of the avenging sister of the murder victim.
Unusually for Florey, this was an independent production (Emanuel Cohen Productions, billed as "Major Pictures Corporation") released through Paramount.
Outcast is a 1928 silent film drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was directed by William A. Seiter and stars Corinne Griffith, often considered one of the most beautiful women in film. This story had been filmed in 1917 as The World and the Woman with Jeanne Eagels. In 1922 a Paramount film of the same name with Elsie Ferguson reprising her stage role was released. Both films were based on a 1914 play, Outcast, by Hubert Henry Davies which starred Ferguson. The Seiter/Griffith film was an all silent with Vitaphone music and sound effects. In the sound era the story was filmed once again as The Girl from 10th Avenue starring Bette Davis. According to the Library of Congress database shows a print surviving complete at Cineteca Italiana in Milan.
Outcast (sometimes listed as The Outcast) is a lost 1917 American drama film directed by Dell Henderson and starring Ann Murdock. It was based on the play Outcast by Hubert Henry Davies. It was produced by Empire All-Star Corp., a production unit of the late Charles Frohman who had produced the play starring Elsie Ferguson. Ferguson would reprise the role in a 1922 Paramount film.
Outcast is an American horror drama television series based on the comics of the same name by Robert Kirkman. A ten-episode first season debuted on Cinemax on June 3, 2016. It is a supernatural horror story that features people involved in demonic possession.
On March 14, 2016, ahead of its premiere, Outcast was renewed for a second season.
Usage examples of "outcast".
Every day the outcasts were in the streets, women with junk carts, a man dragging a mattress, ordinary drunks slipping in from the dock areas, from construction craters near the Hudson, people without shoes, amputees and freaks, men splitting off from groups sleeping in fish crates under the highway and limping down past the slips and lanes, the helicopter pad, onto Broad Street, living rags.
As much of an outcast as Joel had become, she insists that he never exhibited any antisocial behavior.
Charming and sought for as you are, its clammy hand can beslime you also, make a social outcast of you.
She saw kleptomancers of Palmary and outcasts of Serpenttooth plotting in the present.
Then some pin-eyed Jeltick scholar spotted a note at the end, buried in the appendices in a crude but related slang-language, obviously added later, but not much later, that basically said the whole thing had been written during the Long Crossing of the Second Ship, by an Outcast Dweller skilled in the Penumbral language, and that, yes, of course there was a Dweller List, they - the ship, or its crew - had the key to it, and it would be included in Volume Two or Three of this epic poem.
It took five years to turn an outcast rebel boy into a Blade and even Prime Candidate Ranter had been in the school for less than four.
Mr Semple was glad of someone to run with, and Mr Kay felt less of an outcast than he had done before Semple consented to join his morning pipe-openers.
We were now, as it seemed, the most deplorable objects in creation: without friends and without a gig, wet through, shelterless, amidst a crowd of drunken, loathsome outcasts of society, with only one solitary comfort between us--a pipe, which Charley enjoyed and I loathed.
She would have to be forever on guard, he insisted, lest the temptation of some moment, not to be foreseen, prove too strong for her latent weakness of character, and commit her, through some unpremeditated act of defiance to the law--most probably an act of theft--to the life of a social outcast.
If Adams had been rejected by the vote of the people, Rush had been made an outcast by much of his own profession.
From there it was just a short walk to Alsatia, which, outcast that I was, I had already begun to think of as home.
Ever since the incident at Vitoria, the men treated Amparo as an outcast, ignoring her most of the time and speaking to her only when necessary.
I did not even visit Georgius in the carcer, either to gloat at the old nauthing or to inquire why he had committed his family to work on behalf of the outcast Odoacer.
Roki, born to the nobility of Coph, dedicated to the service of the Sixty-Star Cluster, suddenly found himself something of an outcast.
An Old Blood human who flees his dying body and takes refuge in that of his Wit-partner becomes an outcast from the Old Blood community.