1. Thrown out from the interior of anything.
1756. C. Lucas, Ess. Waters, II. 165. If the water be … upon the fire … these ejected bubbles will be more apparent.
1799. Kirwan, Geol. Ess., 269. The low heat of the ejected lava.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xlviii. (1856), 445. That singular ejected rock, the Devil’s Thumb. Ibid. (1856), Arct. Expl., I. xxiv. 320. The young gulls were feeding on the ejected morsel.
2. Expelled from a country, or from an office; evicted, turned out from a possession, tenancy, etc.
1649. Milton, Eikon., Wks. 1738, I. 408. True policy will teach them to find a safer interest in the common friendship of England, than in the ruins of one ejected Family.
1665. Marvell, Corr., xlviii. Wks. 1872, II. 183. Non-conformist ejected Ministers.
1836. H. Rogers, J. Howe, iv. (1863), 116. But though Howe was an ejected minister, he could not consent to be a silenced one.
