ppl. a. Also 4 (Sc.) banyst, 6 -eist. [f. prec. + -ED.]
† 1. Outlawed, put to the ban. Banished man: an outlaw, a bandit. Obs.
[c. 1320. Sir Beues, 4129. This forbannuste man Is come the land agan.]
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIV. li. (1495). A deserte is the lodges of banyssht men and of theues.
1591. Shaks., Two Gent., V. iv. 152. These banish’d men, that I haue kept withall.
1617. Moryson, Itin., I. II. ii. 104. These banished men lurking upon the confines of the Popes state … make excursions … to doe robberies.
2. Exiled, expatriated; driven away, dismissed.
1578. Chr. Prayers, in Priv. Prayers (1851), 514. Whensoever this banished and wayfaring soul of mine shall depart hence.
1582–8. Hist. Jas. VI. (1804), 274. The uther twa cheefe baneist lords.
1611. Bible, 2 Sam. xiv. 13. The King doeth not fetch home againe his banished.
1717. Pope, Eloïsa, 52. Some banish’d lover, or some captive maid.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 421. Who had heroically laid down his life for the banished King.
