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Webster 1913 Edition
Banish
Ban′ish
(băn′ĭsh)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Banished
(băn′ĭsht)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Banishing
.] 1.
To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one’s country, by authority of the ruling power.
“We banish you our territories.” Shak.
2.
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. Blair.
3.
To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.
“Banish all offense.” Shak.
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 societyWebster 1828 Edition
Banish
BAN'ISH
, v.t.1.
To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the prince or government, either for life or for a limited time. It is common for Russians to be banished to Siberia.27
2.
To drive away; to compel to depart; as, to banish sorrow.3.
To quit one's country voluntarily, and with a view to reside abroad; as, he banished himself.Definition 2024
banish
banish
English
Verb
banish (third-person singular simple present banishes, present participle banishing, simple past and past participle banished)
- (heading) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
- (with simple direct object)
- If you don't stop talking blasphemes, I will banish you.
- (with from)
- He was banished from the kingdom.
- 2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian:
- The parsnip, stilton and chestnut combination may taste good, but it's not terribly decorative. In fact, dull's the word, a lingering adjectival ghost of nut roasts past that I'm keen to banish from the table.
- (dated, with out of)
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, volume II, book XII, Ch.V, Modern Library, 1999, p.640:
- Now for Christ's love, said Sir Launcelot, keep it in counsel, and let no man know it in the world, for I am sore ashamed that I have been thus miscarried; for I am banished out of the country of Logris for ever, that is for to say the country of England.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, volume II, book XII, Ch.V, Modern Library, 1999, p.640:
- (archaic, with two simple objects (person and place))
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.10:
- he never referreth any one unto vertue, religion, or conscience: as if they were all extinguished and banished the world […].
- 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, 1985, p.190:
- Then yours she will never be! You are banished her presence; her mother has opened her eyes to your designs, and she is now upon her guard against them.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.10:
- (with simple direct object)
- To expel, especially from the mind.
- banish fear, qualm.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
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Translations
to send someone away and forbid that person from returning
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to expel, especially from the mind