▪ I. † exˈpulse, n. Obs. rare—1.
[f. expulse v.; after repulse.]
An act of expelling or driving out.
| 1565 Golding Ovid's Met. ix. (1593) 229 Unhappie wench she takes from daie to daie Repulse upon expulse. |
▪ II. † expulse, v. Obs.
(ɛkˈspʌls)
Also 6 expoulse, -pulce, -puls.
[ad. L. expulsāre, frequentative of expellĕre: see expel. Cf. F. expulser.]
trans. A synonym of expel; sometimes expressing more strongly the notion of violence. Very common in the 16–17th c.; now Obs., though casual examples occur in 19th c. Const. from, out of; also with double obj. by omission of from. a. with obj. a person, etc.: To drive or thrust out from a place; to eject, evict from a possession or holding; to turn out of an office, community, etc. Cf. expel 1 a, 2.
| 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 209 Saturnus, expulsede of Iupiter his son, commenge to the realme of Ianus, made a cite. c 1500 New Not-br. Mayd in 5 Poet. Tracts (Percy Soc.) 37 From his thought, I that hym bought, Shall be espoulsed playne. 1581 Lambarde Eiren. ii. iv. (1588) 164 A lessee for yeeres of lande, that is expulsed by force. 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. 49 Adam our first parent was expulsed paradise. 1604 Eng. Gilds (1870) 436 He shall never be..expullsed [from a tenement] but by the kings writ. 1640 Yorke Union Hon. 40 King Edward the fourth..being..expulsed the realme by the powerfull Earle of Warwicke. 1660 R. Mossom Apol. Sequest. Clergy 7 Other Pastours were displac't and expulst. 1725 Broome Odyssey III. xi. 159 note, Peleus was expuls'd from his kingdom by Acastus. 1842 Tait's Mag. IX. 438 Unless you wish to be expulsed for ever from your mother's house. |
b. with a material thing as obj.: To drive out by mechanical force. Of the body, its parts or organs: To eject, expel (the contents, any foreign substance, excrements, etc.). Also said of the action of drugs, etc. Cf. expel 1 b, c.
| 1542 Boorde Dyetary iv. (1870) 237 To..expulse all corrupt and contagyous ayre. 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xvii. §9 The Kernel being..expulsed with the torture and presse of the methode. 1660 tr. Paracelsus' Archidoxis ii. 81 The Phlegm is expulsed by the Nostrils. 1758 Monthly Rev. 197 Sand, gravel and ashes only were expulsed. 1823 J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 78 To expulse all atmospheric air. |
c. with immaterial obj.
| 1505 Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. Wks. 115 Almyghty god expulsed synne. 1596 Edw. III iii. ii. 38 Sweet-flowering peace..Is quite abandon'd and expuls'd the land. 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. i. ii. §7 No man need doubt that learning will expulse business. 1767 A. Campbell Lexiph. (1774) 6 Expulse hereditary aggregates..which may obumbrate your intellectual luminaries. [Intended as a caricature of ‘Johnsonese’.] |
Hence exˈpulsed ppl. a. exˈpulsement = expulsion. exˈpulsing vbl. n.
| 1603 B. Jonson Sejanus v. x. Wks. (Rtldg.) 171/2 The expulsed Apicata, finds them there. 1691 Ed. Taylor tr. Behmen's Theos. Phil. 46 The Expulsed Dragon. |
| 1537 Irish Acts, 28 Hen. VIII, c. 1 §9 Such manors..or other hereditaments so had by disseisin or expulsement. |
| 1548 Udall Erasm. Par. Pref. 5 The expulsyng of the Romishe Antichriste. 1574 tr. Littleton's Tenures 87 b, No expulsing of the franke tenemente of the heyre. |
| 1578 Banister Hist. Man v. 73 The expulcing of flegme. 1640 Jrnl. Ho. Com. II. 73 The Expulsing of the Priests and Jesuits. |