Both Uses of
banish
in
Moby Dick
- The grounds upon which Linnaeus would fain have banished the whales from the waters, he states as follows: "On account of their warm bilocular heart, their lungs, their movable eyelids, their hollow ears, penem intrantem feminam mammis lactantem," and finally, "ex lege naturae jure meritoque."†
Chpt 31-33 *banished = expelled or gotten rid of
- Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters; his straight and single lofty jet rising like a tall misanthropic spear upon a barren plain; gifted with such wondrous power and velocity in swimming, as to defy all present pursuit from man; this leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race, bearing for his mark that style upon his back.†
Chpt 31-33
Definition:
to expel or get rid of
in various senses, including:
- to force someone to leave a country as punishment
- to push an idea from the mind