offcast

There was a drug, supplementary to their addictions, which effectively switched them offcast them into a mental void, created within them what amounted to temporary brain-death-which was the absolute negation of thought.

Psychosphere Lumley, Brian 1984

Which will you be, an honorable wife, or a despised offcast?

Ellen Walton The Villain and His Victims Alvin Addison

Weird hath offcast them to the clutches of Grendel.

Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall

He greeted Mr. Fear hospitably, having been so lately an offcast of the streets himself that his adoption had taught him to lose only his old tremors, not his hopefulness.

The Conquest of Canaan Booth Tarkington 1907

He greeted Mr. Fear hospitably, having been so lately an offcast of the streets himself that his adoption had taught him to lose only his old tremors, not his hopefulness.

The Conquest of Canaan 1905

Of the Dog tribe were they, an offcast of the Great Slaves, according to Rea, and as motley, starring and starved as the Yellow Knives.

The Last of the Plainsmen Zane Grey 1905

Every unincumbered piece of our property, the orts, dregs, and offcast of our operations, were made the subjects of transfers to the rag-tag and bobtail of Lattimore society.

Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Herbert Quick 1893

He is dressed in black, the only suit of the color in town — if we except that of the sexton, which is known to be an offcast of the Parson's — kerseymere coat, silk breeches and stockings; he has on a three-cornered hat, a fleece-like wig, white bands and black silk gloves.

Margaret 1851

There's a mystery about the child, and I am of the opinion that it has been stolen, or is known to be the offcast of some respectable family.

Cast Adrift 1847

Onetime dem vp candidate, now offcast and sent off.

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