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▪ I. † exˈpulse, n. Obs. rare—1. [f. expulse v.; after repulse.] An act of expelling or driving out.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. ix. (1593) 229 Unhappie wench she takes from daie to daie Repulse upon expulse. ▪ II. † expulse, v. Obs.|ɛkˈspʌls| Also 6 expoulse, -pulce, -puls. [ad. L. expulsāre, frequentative of expellĕre: see expel. Cf. F. expulser.] trans. A synonym of expel; sometimes expressing more strongly the notion of violence. Very common in the 16–17th c.; now Obs., though casual examples occur in 19th c. Const. from, out of; also with double obj. by omission of from. a. with obj. a person, etc.: To drive or thrust out from a place; to eject, evict from a possession or holding; to turn out of an office, community, etc. Cf. expel 1 a, 2.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 209 Saturnus, expulsede of Iupiter his son, commenge to the realme of Ianus, made a cite. c1500New Not-br. Mayd in 5 Poet. Tracts (Percy Soc.) 37 From his thought, I that hym bought, Shall be espoulsed playne. 1581Lambarde Eiren. ii. iv. (1588) 164 A lessee for yeeres of lande, that is expulsed by force. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. 49 Adam our first parent was expulsed paradise. 1604Eng. Gilds (1870) 436 He shall never be..expullsed [from a tenement] but by the kings writ. 1640Yorke Union Hon. 40 King Edward the fourth..being..expulsed the realme by the powerfull Earle of Warwicke. 1660R. Mossom Apol. Sequest. Clergy 7 Other Pastours were displac't and expulst. 1725Broome Odyssey III. xi. 159 note, Peleus was expuls'd from his kingdom by Acastus. 1842Tait's Mag. IX. 438 Unless you wish to be expulsed for ever from your mother's house. b. with a material thing as obj.: To drive out by mechanical force. Of the body, its parts or organs: To eject, expel (the contents, any foreign substance, excrements, etc.). Also said of the action of drugs, etc. Cf. expel 1 b, c.
1542Boorde Dyetary iv. (1870) 237 To..expulse all corrupt and contagyous ayre. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xvii. §9 The Kernel being..expulsed with the torture and presse of the methode. 1660tr. Paracelsus' Archidoxis ii. 81 The Phlegm is expulsed by the Nostrils. 1758Monthly Rev. 197 Sand, gravel and ashes only were expulsed. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 78 To expulse all atmospheric air. c. with immaterial obj.
1505Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. Wks. 115 Almyghty god expulsed synne. 1596Edw. III iii. ii. 38 Sweet-flowering peace..Is quite abandon'd and expuls'd the land. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. ii. §7 No man need doubt that learning will expulse business. 1767A. Campbell Lexiph. (1774) 6 Expulse hereditary aggregates..which may obumbrate your intellectual luminaries. [Intended as a caricature of ‘Johnsonese’.] Hence exˈpulsed ppl. a. exˈpulsement = expulsion. exˈpulsing vbl. n.
1603B. Jonson Sejanus v. x. Wks. (Rtldg.) 171/2 The expulsed Apicata, finds them there. 1691Ed. Taylor tr. Behmen's Theos. Phil. 46 The Expulsed Dragon.
1537Irish Acts, 28 Hen. VIII, c. 1 §9 Such manors..or other hereditaments so had by disseisin or expulsement.
1548Udall Erasm. Par. Pref. 5 The expulsyng of the Romishe Antichriste. 1574tr. Littleton's Tenures 87 b, No expulsing of the franke tenemente of the heyre.
1578Banister Hist. Man v. 73 The expulcing of flegme. 1640Jrnl. Ho. Com. II. 73 The Expulsing of the Priests and Jesuits. |