Obs. 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. trans. 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 expoulsed playne.
1581. Lambarde, Eiren., II. iv. (1588), 164. A Lessee for yeeres of lande, that is expulsed by force.
1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abus., II. G vij. 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. 115, note. Peleus was expuls’d from his kingdom by Acastus.
1842. Mrs. Gore, in Tait’s Mag., IX. 438/2. 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. Qq 4. The kernell beeing forced out, and expulsed, with the torture and presse of the Methode.
1660. trans. Paracelsus’ Archidoxis, II. 81. The Phlegm is expulsed by the Nostrils.
1758. Monthly Rev., 197. Rocks, stones, 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. Edward III., III. ii. 38, F 1. Sweete flowring peace the roote of happie life, Is quite abandoned and expulst the lande.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., I. ii. § 7. C 3 b. No man neede doubt, that learning will expulse businesse.
1767. A. Campbell, Lexiph. (1774), 6. Expulse hereditary aggregates … which may obumbrate your intellectual luminaries. [Intended as a caricature of ‘Johnsonese.’]
Hence Expulsed ppl. a. Expulsement = EXPULSION. Expulsing vbl. sb.
1603. B. Jonson, Sejanus, V. x. (1605), N b. Th’expulsed Apicata, finds them there.
1691. E. Taylor, Behmen’s Theos. Philos., 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. trans. Littleton’s Tenures, 87 b. No expulsing of the franke tenemente of the heyre.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, V. 72 b. The expulcing of flegme.
1640. Jrnl. Ho. Com., II. 73. The Expulsing of the Priests and Jesuits.
