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expeller|ɛkˈspɛlə(r)|
Also 8 expellor.
[f. expel v. + -er1.]
1. One who, or that which, expels. Const. of.
1577Holinshed Chron. (1807) I. v. xvii. 585 The expeller of manie tyrants. 1647Fanshaw tr. Guarini's Pastor Fido ii. Chorus, Unspotted faith, expeller of all vice. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. II. s.v. Wind Cholick, The most effectual expeller of Wind. 1741Warburton Div. Legat. II. 288 Their mistake was only about the Expellor. 1794T. Taylor Pausanias' Descr. Greece II. 39 Jupiter Apomyius, or the expeller of flies. 1846Ellis Elgin Marb. I. 109 The Expeller of the Bacchidæ from Corinth.
†2. = expellent B. n. Obs.
1683Salmon Doron Med. ii. 443 A powerful expeller. |