Expulse

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To expel, usually by means of violence. obsolete

    "Robert le Bruce re-enters Scotland, whence he had been by Edward the First expuls'd, inverting all the English Institutions, that had so lately setled the Peace and subjection of the Kingdom"

Example

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"Robert le Bruce re-enters Scotland, whence he had been by Edward the First expuls'd, inverting all the English Institutions, that had so lately setled the Peace and subjection of the Kingdom"

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin expulsō.

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