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Webster 1913 Edition


Outcast

Out′castˊ

,
Adj.
[Cf. Sw.
utkasta
to cast out.]
Cast out; degraded.
Outcast, rejected.”
Longfellow.

Out′castˊ

,
Noun.
1.
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.
2.
A quarrel; a contention.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.

Webster 1828 Edition


Outcast

OUT'CAST

,
pp.
or a. Cast out; thrown away; rejected as useless.

OUT'CAST

,
Noun.
One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home or country. Is. 16.

Definition 2024


outcast

outcast

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Verb

outcast (third-person singular simple present outcasts, present participle outcasting, simple past and past participle outcast)

  1. To cast out; to banish. [from 14th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
      All as a blazing starre doth farre outcast / His hearie beames, and flaming lockes dispredd [...].

Adjective

outcast (comparative more outcast, superlative most outcast)

  1. That has been cast out; banished, ostracized. [from 14th c.]
    • Longfellow
      Outcast, rejected.

Noun

outcast (plural outcasts)

  1. One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah. [from 14th c.]

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Derived terms

  • social outcast

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