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Wiktionary

  1. v. To drive out; to expel.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. expel from a community or group
  2. v. throw or cast away

Examples

  • “Then the Count, turning the color of the wall, cold as a bench of stone, said, 'Varlets, here, cast out this dismal phantom!”

    Frederic Mistral

  • “His efforts to cast out this personal “debil” were futile, and as the poor creature lapsed into unconsciousness he would blow gusty breaths upon her big black eyes.”

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber

  • “Can we, in a word, abolish the acropolis which is in us and cast out the tyrants within us, whom we have dally over us, sometimes the same tyrants, at other times different tyrants?”

    The Discourses of Epictetus

  • “O eloquent, just and mightie Death! whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou onely hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawne together all the farre stretched greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie, and ambition, of man, and covered it all over with those two narrow words: Hic jacet.”

    Thomas Hariot

  • “And significantly the ‘seven devils’ that Jesus allegedly cast out of the Magdalene may be seen as the seven Maskim, SumeroAkkadian spirits who ruled the sacred seven spheres and who had been born of the goddess Mari.25”

    Simon & Schuster: The Templar Revelation

  • “But word was that Ashnod had been cast out from Mishra's camp.”

    The Brothers' War

  • “In Poland and then-Czechoslovakia, for example, Communists had been cast out of government in favor of former dissidents who needed no political reeducation.”

    Simon & Schuster: The J Curve

  • “The mouth of that land hath many shoalds, and the sea breaketh on them as it is cast out of the mouth of it.”

    Henry Hudson

  • “And when Ulysses was cast out shipwrecked, did want humiliate him, did it break his spirit? but how did he go off to the virgins to ask for necessaries, to beg which is considered most shameful?”

    The Discourses of Epictetus

  • “A letter read from the Earl of Manchester, stating that he cast out Drs. Beale, Cosins,”

    The Life of John Milton

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