v. 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. [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. Shaks., Temp., I. ii. 266. Sycorax … from Argier Thou know’st was banish’d.
1848. trans. 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. Shaks., Two Gent., III. i. 171. To die, is to be banisht from my selfe. Ibid. (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. Shaks., 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. 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.
