banish, v.
(ˈbænɪʃ)
Forms: 4 banyse, -isshe, 4–6 -ysshe, 5 bannysshe, 6 -ysche, -ish, banysh(e, -ych, 4– banish.
[a. OF. baniss- lengthened stem of banir (mod. bannir):—late L. bannīre, f. bannum proclamation: see ban.]
† 1. orig. To put to the ban, ‘proclaim’ as an outlaw, to outlaw. Obs.
| c 1320–1617 [See banished.] |
2. To condemn (a person) by public edict or sentence to leave the country; to exile, expatriate: a. with from, out of.
| 1375 Barbour Bruce iv. 522 We are out of our cuntre Banyst. 1485 Caxton Chas. Gt. 13 Whom..her uncle bannysshed fro hys contrey. 1530 Palsgr. 443/2 The kyng hath banysshed hym out of his realme. 1610 Shakes. Temp. i. ii. 266 Sycorax..from Argier Thou know'st was banish'd. 1848 tr. Gieseler's Ch. Hist. II. ii. 109 They had been banished from Rome. |
b. with double obj. (of person and place).
| 1494 Fabyan i. ii. 9 He was banysshed the Countre. 1674 Hickman Hist. Quinquart. 36 Godescalk was banished Germany. 1796 Morse Amer. Geog. II. 295 He that shall be convicted there of is to be banished the kingdom. |
c. simply.
| c 1385 Chaucer L.G.W. 1863 That Tarquyny shulde ybanysshed be there-fore. 1651 Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxi. 110 Banished an Aristides, for his reputation of Justice. 1879 Froude Cæsar xv. 227 Clodius had banished Cicero. |
3. gen. To send or drive away, expel, dismiss imperatively (a person). Const. as in prec.
| c 1450 Compl. Loveres Lyfe xlvi, Though I be banysshed out of her syght. 1548 Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. xii. 43 (R.) Beyng banyshed from his olde hospitall, he walketh in dry and baren places. 1591 Shakes. Two Gent. iii. i. 171 To die, is to be banisht from my selfe. 1593 ― 2 Hen. VI, ii. i. 197, I banish her my Bed. 1732 Pope Mor. Ess. iii. 330 Banish'd the doctor, and expell'd the friend. 1826 Disraeli Viv. Grey vii. ix. 438 Who had they dared to imitate him..would have been banished society. |
4. To drive away, expel, dismiss (a thing).
| 1460 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 78 Sithe al manere of Iustice and pyte is banshid out of a ladies entente. 1596 Shakes. Tam. Shr. Induct. ii. 34 Banish hence these abiect lowlie dreames. 1637 Milton Comus 413 And gladly banish squint suspicion. 1742 Richardson Pamela III. 263 Industry would have been banish'd the Earth. 1871 W. Markby Elem. Law §202 Try to recall an absent thought or to banish a present one. |
† 5. To clear out, empty. Cf. avoid v. Obs.
| 1494 Fabyan vi. clxvii. 133 [They] banysshed that cytie as they had doon the other. 1573 Tusser Husb. (1878) 17 To banish house of blasphemie, least crosses crosse vnluckelie. |