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banish, v.|ˈbænɪʃ| Forms: 4 banyse, -isshe, 4–6 -ysshe, 5 bannysshe, 6 -ysche, -ish, banysh(e, -ych, 4– banish. [a. OF. baniss- lengthened stem of banir (mod. bannir):—late L. bannīre, f. bannum proclamation: see ban.] †1. orig. To put to the ban, ‘proclaim’ as an outlaw, to outlaw. Obs.
c1320–1617 [See banished.] 2. To condemn (a person) by public edict or sentence to leave the country; to exile, expatriate: a. with from, out of.
1375Barbour Bruce iv. 522 We are out of our cuntre Banyst. 1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 13 Whom..her uncle bannysshed fro hys contrey. 1530Palsgr. 443/2 The kyng hath banysshed hym out of his realme. 1610Shakes. Temp. i. ii. 266 Sycorax..from Argier Thou know'st was banish'd. 1848tr. Gieseler's Ch. Hist. II. ii. 109 They had been banished from Rome. b. with double obj. (of person and place).
1494Fabyan i. ii. 9 He was banysshed the Countre. 1674Hickman Hist. Quinquart. 36 Godescalk was banished Germany. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 295 He that shall be convicted there of is to be banished the kingdom. c. simply.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1863 That Tarquyny shulde ybanysshed be there-fore. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxi. 110 Banished an Aristides, for his reputation of Justice. 1879Froude Cæsar xv. 227 Clodius had banished Cicero. 3. gen. To send or drive away, expel, dismiss imperatively (a person). Const. as in prec.
c1450Compl. Loveres Lyfe xlvi, Though I be banysshed out of her syght. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. xii. 43 (R.) Beyng banyshed from his olde hospitall, he walketh in dry and baren places. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. iii. i. 171 To die, is to be banisht from my selfe. 1593― 2 Hen. VI, ii. i. 197, I banish her my Bed. 1732Pope Mor. Ess. iii. 330 Banish'd the doctor, and expell'd the friend. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey vii. ix. 438 Who had they dared to imitate him..would have been banished society. 4. To drive away, expel, dismiss (a thing).
1460Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 78 Sithe al manere of Iustice and pyte is banshid out of a ladies entente. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. Induct. ii. 34 Banish hence these abiect lowlie dreames. 1637Milton Comus 413 And gladly banish squint suspicion. 1742Richardson Pamela III. 263 Industry would have been banish'd the Earth. 1871W. Markby Elem. Law §202 Try to recall an absent thought or to banish a present one. †5. To clear out, empty. Cf. avoid v. Obs.
1494Fabyan vi. clxvii. 133 [They] banysshed that cytie as they had doon the other. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 17 To banish house of blasphemie, least crosses crosse vnluckelie. |