expulser Obs.
(ɛkˈspʌlsə(r))
[f. prec. + -er1.]
One who or that which expels or drives out; in senses of the vb. Const. of.
| 1540 R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. (1592) Aa vj, The man standeth as it were in the middest betweene his mother and his wife: and so either of them hateth other, as an expulser of her selfe. 1546 Langley Pol. Verg. De Invent. i. xiii. (1560) 24 b, The Science of Philosophy which Tully calleth the..expulser of vyce. 1605 Timme Quersit. iii. 148 Nature..stirreth up the expulser, and prouoketh it to send forth the excrements. 1823 D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1858) III. 424 The expulser of the Tarquins. |