Ex*pel" (?), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Expelled (?), p. pr. & vb. n..
Expelling.] [L. expellere, expulsum; ex
out + pellere to drive: cf.F. expeller. See
Pulse a beat.] 1. To drive or force out
from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated;
to eject; as, to expel air from a bellows.
Did not ye . . . expel me out of my father's
house?
Judg. xi. 7.
2. To drive away from one's country; to
banish.
Forewasted all their land, and them
expelled.
Spenser..
He shall expel them from before you . . . and
ye shall possess their land.
Josh. xxiii. 5.
3. To cut off from further connection with an
institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel
a student or member.
4. To keep out, off, or away; to
exclude. "To expel the winter's flaw." Shak.
5. To discharge; to shoot. [Obs.]
Then he another and another [shaft] did
expel.
Spenser..
Syn. -- To banish; exile; eject; drive out. See
Banish.