单词 | oust |
释义 | oustv. 1. Law. a. transitive. To put out of possession; to eject; to dispossess, disseise. Also: †to remove from a jury (obsolete). Frequently with of. historical and rare in later use. Cf. ouster order n. at ouster n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [verb (transitive)] > wrongfully seize or occupy disseisec1330 usurpc1400 oust1420 purpress1500 disseisin1548 invade1617 redisseise1628 1420 in Cal. Proc. Chancery Queen Elizabeth (1827) I. p. xviii (MED) We wol and charge you that..ye see and ordeyne that oure saide tenant..be not wrongfully ousted by maintenance of lordship ner other wyse. 1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. xix. f. 67 The suspected men may bee ousted by challenge. 1618 M. Dalton Countrey Justice 175 The Lessor is not ousted nor disseised of his freehold. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. vii. 116 Farmers were ousted of their leases made by tenants in tail. 1795 C. Ansley Monopolist 5 Hiring Land Where'er it could be found, Crept into Wealth, by ousting all The little Farmers round. 1885 Dict. National Biogr. at Ælfweard By the king's help Ælfweard managed to oust Godwine and recover the property of his house. 1925 W. S. Holdsworth Hist. Eng. Law VII. 10 The action of ejectment was..an action of trespass in which the plaintiff, a lessee in possession of a term, complained that he had been ousted by a defendant. b. transitive. To exclude, bar; to take away (a right, privilege, etc.); (now) spec. to take away (a court's jurisdiction) in a matter. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > be morally improper for [verb (transitive)] > lose the right to > take away (a right) oust1656 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel > specific people from a place, position, or possession outshoveOE to do out of ——OE shovec1200 to put out of ——c1225 to cast out1297 void13.. usurpa1325 to put outa1350 outputa1382 outrayc1390 excludea1400 expulse?a1475 expel1490 to shut forth1513 to put forth1526 to turn out1546 depel?1548 disseisin1548 evict1548 exturb1603 debout1619 wincha1626 disseise1627 out-pusha1631 howster1642 oust1656 out1823 purge1825 the bum's rush1910 outplace1928 1656 in T. Burton Diary (1828) I. 83 You oust both the master's and his Highness's right. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xxii. 298 In such cases bail is ousted or taken away, wherever the offence is of a very enormous nature. 1848 J. Arnould Law Marine Insurance II. iv. i. 1245 Their jurisdiction cannot be ousted by any contract of the parties. 1971 Mod. Law Rev. 36 611 One way of ousting the jurisdiction of United Kingdom courts to pronounce on the vires of such instruments. 1992 F. A. R. Bennion Statutory Interpretation (ed. 2) 64 The courts dislike attempts by Parliament to oust or curtail their jurisdiction. 2. a. transitive. To expel or drive out from a place or position. Frequently with from, by. ΚΠ 1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 294 An intrigue is already begun for ousting him from his place. 1832 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 47 512 They prayed, that the popish lords and bishops might be forthwith ousted the House of Peers. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. ix. 418 It was impossible altogether to oust him from command. 1904 Daily Chron. 8 Oct. 8/4 There is no fear that the English clubwoman will ever oust the home-loving woman from her place. 1932 H. Nicolson Public Faces i. 17 Only three months before they had ousted the Churchill Government on a charge of adventurism. 1989 C. S. Murray Crosstown Traffic iv. 102 He [sc. Prince] has ousted David Bowie from his former privileged position as the briliant magpie at the cutting edge of pop weirdness. 2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 June 57/3 Shirin is the daughter of a Oajar princess (the dynasty ousted by the Pahlavis). b. transitive. To replace in use or fashion. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [verb (transitive)] > render old-fashioned antiquate1531 stale1601 superannuate1649 outmode1668 rust1694 unmodernize1818 fossilize1848 oust1865 date1895 archaize1906 1865 G. Rawlinson Five Great Monarchies III. vi. 198 The present language..ousted the former. 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. iii. 33 The..waggons..were built on those ancient lines whose proportions have been ousted by modern patterns. 1946 ‘G. Orwell’ in Horizon 13 257 An interesting illustration of this is the way in which the English flower names which were in use till very recently are being ousted by Greek ones, snapdragon becoming antirrhinum, forget-me-not becoming myosotis, etc. 1995 Tikkun Jan. 92/1 In the age of leisure, our sense of history has been ousted by current affairs. Derivatives ˈousted adj. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [adjective] > expelling > expelled > specific people from a place, position, or possession ousted?c1663 unkennelled1687 expelled1774 ?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 675 Mr Hounsill the ousted minister,..preached very well att the Lodge. 1765 T. Mortimer New Hist. Eng. II. 299/1 Two thousand three hundred and seventy-four chantries and other religious foundations fell to the crown, with a few reserves of pensions to be paid to the ousted incumbents. 1866 J. R. Lowell in N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 545 It enabled the new proprietors and the ousted ones to live as citizens of the same country together. 1946 Liberty 1 June 15/2 The ousted professional man or the down-graded Beamte..isn't given much hope that his situation will some day change. 2001 Time 22 Oct. 61/2 The U.N. helped persuade the ousted [Afghan] King to convene a grand assembly, traditionally known as a loya jirga. ˈousting n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > expulsion or driving out > specific people from a place, position, or possession outputtinga1387 voidingc1435 ejectmentc1523 exposition1530 extrusion1540 ejection1566 expulse1567 Jack Drum1592 eviction1599 ousting1858 bounce1876 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iv. vii. 456 His troubles as Sovereign Duke, his flights to Dantzig, oustings, returns, law-pleadings and foolish confusions, lasted all his life. 1864 Reader 9 Apr. 447/1 Prophesying the ousting of the Philistines from the promised land. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 6 May 8/3 The ousting of home-bred meat, and the passing-by of the market by the great importers. 1998 High Country News 27 Apr. 9/2 The controversial ousting was supposed to signal that rule by the so-called Iron Triangle, the cozy relationship among corporate timber interests, politicians and bureaucrats, was over. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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