All 3 Uses of
expel
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- If the types we have just expelled were the only types there were, the temple would never have existed any more than one can have a wood consisting of nothing but creepers — those who have found favor with the angel — are somewhat odd, uncommunicative, solitary fellows, really less like each other than the hosts of the rejected.†
Part 2expelled = forced out
- And so Phaedrus, who at the age of fifteen had finished his freshman year of science, was at the age of seventeen expelled from the University for failing grades.†
Part 2 *
- There is no evidence anywhere that he ever thought of his expulsion from the university as a failure, just an enigma.†
Part 2expulsion = the act of forcing out
Definition:
force out
especially in 2 primary senses:
- kicking someone out of an organization -- such as a school or country
- squeezing something to eliminate a liquid or gas