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Ejection   /ɪdʒˈɛkʃən/   Listen
Ejection

noun
1.
The act of expelling or projecting or ejecting.  Synonyms: expulsion, forcing out, projection.
2.
The act of forcing out someone or something.  Synonyms: exclusion, expulsion, riddance.  "The child's expulsion from school"



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"Ejection" Quotes from Famous Books



... arose over the ejection from the meeting of a protesting Shareholder, who injudiciously proposed an Amendment to the Report to the effect that, "In the face of grave National danger, the Company ought to be prepared, even if it involved serious financial loss, to close their Tunnel, if such a step should be regarded ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890 • Various

... and the only remedy which is of value in whooping cough is a nerve depressant which will diminish the activity of the nervous system without at the same time interfering with the strength or vigor of the patient. On account of this connection between the lungs, whose spasmodic ejection of air seems to threaten the entire collapse of the little patient, and the stomach, so alarming do the repeated fits of vomiting appear that often this feature of the disease is even more serious than the coughing, ...
— Rural Hygiene • Henry N. Ogden

... one hand, that this parable deals with and settles the question of the right to eject unworthy members from the communion of the Church; and on the other hand, that while it condemns excessive and puritanical strictness, it permits and justifies the ejection of those who are manifestly unworthy. Most of the commentaries that have come under my notice betray on this point weakness and inconsistency. If by this feature of the parable the Lord gives a decision on Church discipline, he forbids it out and out, in all its forms, and in all its ...
— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot

... lay Sovereigns in such a manner as should be approved by France. The French Republic was thus made arbiter, as a matter of right, in the rearrangement of the maimed and shattered Empire. Even the Grand Duke of Tuscany, like his predecessor in ejection, the Duke of Modena, was to receive some portion of the German race for his subjects, in compensation for the Italians taken from him. To such a pass had political disunion brought a nation which at that time could show the greatest names in Europe in letters, in ...
— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe

... for making its burrow or for food, soon comes to the surface to empty its body. The ejected earth is thoroughly mingled with the intestinal secretions, and is thus rendered viscid. After being dried it sets hard. I have watched worms during the act of ejection, and when the earth was in a very liquid state it was ejected in little spurts, and by a slow peristaltic movement when not so liquid. It is not cast indifferently on any side, but with some care, first on one and then ...
— The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the action of worms with • Charles Darwin

... partiality, of personal malignity, of secret shying and talebearing. But, if an arbitrary discretion is left to the Government, if one nonjuring priest is suffered to keep a lucrative benefice while another is turned with his wife and children into the street, every ejection will be considered as an act of cruelty, and will be imputed as a crime to the sovereign and ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 3 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay



Words linked to "Ejection" :   riddance, propulsion, belch, eructation, vomit, ouster, disgorgement, blackball, coughing up, belching, banishment, eject, forcing out, defenestration, deportation, ostracism, proscription, burp, emesis, actuation, vomiting, spit, spitting, ousting, expulsion, burping, regurgitation, puking, expectoration, barring



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