refusedadj.n.

c1530 Bible (Tyndale) Exod. Prol. An abiecte and a castawaye, a despised and a refused person.

1560 A. L. tr. J. Calvin Foure Serm. Song Ezechias (1574) i He was a wicked and refused man.

1606 Wily Beguilde 60 My father got me of a refus'd hagge.

1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania ii. 243 I would so soone accept of a refused suiter, since my fortunes I trusted would not be such, as to bind me to take my cosins leauings.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. iv. 30 Shall there be a misunderstanding, and the husband court a refused hand?

1790 Acts Sederunt Scotl. 91 The Ordinary..shall write on the back of a refused bill of suspension, his special reasons for so doing.

1929 Preschool & Parental Educ. (National Soc. Study of Educ.) vii. 673 Serve the refused food again and again, making no comments, and often the child will of his own accord slyly taste it.

1973 P. Arnold & C. Davis Hamlyn Bk. World Soccer 143/3 It was..a refused penalty which had caused the South Americans to run amok.

2003 R. Wallis How Safe are our Skies? v. 101 This, it was hoped, would avoid the human trauma and misery inevitably associated with a refused entry.

1793 Rules & Regulations Formations His Majesty's Forces iv. 34 The rear of the column which was destined to become the refused flank of the new line.

1866 H. Greeley Amer. Conflict II. 733/2 Griffin struck their refused flank in the rear.

1888 Times 8 Oct. 7/2 They opened fire on the enemy's two guns on his right, and a refused flank on his left.

1943 B. DeVoto Year of Decision xvii. 471 When the Mexican cavalry got within rifle range, it halted. Mississippi and Indiana blew it to pieces and there was no further attack in that part of the field. That refused flank is the V that comes down in history.

1975 P. H. C. Hayward Jane's Dict. Mil. Terms at Refused flank When the right (or left) flank of a linear defensive position is protected by a formation facing at right angles to the main position that flank is said to be refused.

2000 A. J. Bailey Chessboard of War ix. 157 Since the Confederate line curved back to create an angle at each end (a refused flank), the distance they defended was over three miles.

1740 J. Fuller Let. 4 Oct. in D. Crossley & R. Saville Fuller Lett. 1728–55 (1991) 133 I have never had better Guns went out of my hands from the Furnace and know not the reason why they proved so bad; but Mr Taylor to whom the refused have been sent disposeth of them immediately.

1824 J. Nichols Calvinism & Armin. ii. 707 The fault is in the uncharitableness of the refusers, no less than in the error of the refused.

1871 Wesleyan Sunday-school Mag. 6 425/1 No fish is cast away but what is utterly bad.—The refused is only the refuse.

1905 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health & Marine-Hosp. Service) 20 2201 Since the Hamburg-American Line has refused to accept any more Russians, I have no doubt that many of the refused will try to reach the United States by other routes.

1991 C. Höhn in J.-L. Rallu & A. Blum European Population I. 108 Though only a small percentage is granted the status of asylant the refused are tolerated to nearly 90 percent.

2001 R. Siegmund-Schultze Rockefeller & Internationalization of Math. iv. iv. 99 Among the refused were prominent mathematicians such as Reinhold Baer ( 1902–1979), Henri Cartan (born 1904), [etc.].