Antonyms for casting out


Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : kast, kahst
Phonetic Transcription : kæst, kɑst


Definition of casting out

Origin :
  • mid-13c., "a throw, an act of throwing," from cast (v.). In early use especially of dice, hence figurative uses relating to fortune or fate. Meaning "that which is cast" is from c.1550s. Meaning "dash or shade of color" is from c.1600. The sense of "a throw" carried an idea of "the form the thing takes after it has been thrown," which led to widespread and varied meanings, such as "group of actors in a play" (1630s). OED finds 42 distinct noun meaning and 83 verbal ones, with many sub-definitions. Many of the figurative senses converged in a general meaning "sort, kind, style" (mid-17c.). A cast in the eye (early 14c.) preserves the older verbal sense of "warp, turn."
  • As in exorcism : noun expelling evil spirits
  • As in ostracize : verb exile, banish
  • As in oust : verb expel, get rid of
  • As in reject : verb say no to
  • As in banish : verb expel from place or situation
  • As in supplant : verb displace, replace
  • As in transport : verb exile
  • As in damn : verb condemn, denounce
  • As in deport : verb banish
  • As in dismiss : verb send away, remove; free
  • As in eject : verb throw or be thrown out
  • As in eliminate : verb remove, throw out
  • As in emit : verb diffuse, discharge
  • As in erupt : verb give forth, eject with force
  • As in excommunicate : verb banish
  • As in exile : verb deport from place
  • As in exorcise : verb free from evil spirits
  • As in expel : verb discharge
  • As in expel : verb throw out, banish
Example sentences :
  • It looked as though the people were bent on casting out a king.
  • Extract from : « Blood and Iron » by John Hubert Greusel
  • Let him also be prepared for casting out by priest and scribe.
  • Extract from : « Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews » by Handley C.G. Moule
  • Not casting out his milder thoughts, but artfully transforming them.
  • Extract from : « The Cricket on the Hearth » by Charles Dickens
  • Leonardo also introduces the method of proof by casting out the nines.
  • Extract from : « The Earliest Arithmetics in English » by Anonymous
  • This is also an occasion for casting out devils, if any, from the body.
  • Extract from : « Castes and Tribes of Southern India » by Edgar Thurston
  • Some have gone about to shewe the truth of relligion by casting out divels.
  • Extract from : « Diary of John Manningham » by John Manningham
  • This casting out, if sudden, we term death; if slow, disease and death.
  • Extract from : « The Modern Malady » by Cyril Bennett
  • This we understand in the good old story of casting out devils.
  • Extract from : « The Professor's Mystery » by Wells Hastings
  • They parted in Scotland by casting out Episcopacy at the Revolution.
  • Extract from : « The Real Gladstone » by J. Ewing Ritchie
  • Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.
  • Extract from : « Orthodoxy » by G. K. Chesterton

Synonyms for casting out

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