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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
- 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."Chapters 31-33 — Queen Mab; Cetology; The Specksnyder (26% in)
- 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.Chapters 31-33 — Queen Mab; Cetology; The Specksnyder (47% in)
There are no more uses of "banish" in Moby Dick.
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