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Definition of Banished
1. banish [v] - See also: banish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Banished
Literary usage of Banished
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an by Lorenzo Sabine (1864)
"ROBERT, of Boston, proscribed and banished m 1778. Of Virginia. ... Was proscribed
and banished in 1778. Independent Company, under Branson. BLOXHAM, . ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"As the disturbance continued, the priors banished the leaders of both factions.
... With four others he was banished for two years, condemned to pay a heavy ..."
3. A Cloud of Witnesses for the Royal Prerogatives of Jesus Christ by John Henderson Thomson (1714)
"A List of the banished. the time the " Cloud of Witnesses " was drawn up, ...
Hence the list of the banished giver, by them is far from being full. ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... inspired wisdom of the councils of Aries and Milan were immediately banished
by the emperor, who affected to execute the decrees of the catholic church. ..."