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Ejection   /ɪdʒˈɛkʃən/   Listen
noun
Ejection  n.  
1.
The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. "Vast ejection of ashes." "The ejection of a word."
2.
(Physiol.) The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions.
3.
The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment.





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"Ejection" Quotes from Famous Books



... central part being left unelevated, owing to the force from below being spent and [relieved?] in eruptions. On this view, I do not consider these so-called craters of elevation as formed by the ejection of ashes, lava, etc., etc., but by a peculiar kind of elevation acting round and modified by a volcanic orifice. I wish I had left it all out; I trust that there are in other parts of the volume more facts and less ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin
... grunted amiably, "Look, Joe! We checked everything last night. We checked it again this morning. I even caught Mike polishing the ejection seats, because there wasn't anything ...
— Space Tug • Murray Leinster
... went down, intending to get a brother "official" to assist him in making a forcible ejection of the man from the place he was desecrating. Immediately upon his doing so, however, the man rose, and standing up at the desk, opened the hymn-book. His voice thrilled to the finger ends of Brother W. as in a distinct and impressive manner ...
— Choice Readings for the Home Circle • Anonymous
... ejection of the Whigs, in the end of Queen Anne's reign, Parnell was persuaded to change his party, not without much censure from those whom he forsook, and was received by the new Ministry as a valuable reinforcement. When the Earl of Oxford was told that ...
— Lives of the Poets: Gay, Thomson, Young, and Others • Samuel Johnson
... waist, or even to bring one's mouth in too close proximity to her rosy lips. It leads a sensitive female, or a fastidious gentleman to suspect the existence of a strong desire to enjoy a more familiar intimacy with a feminine pupil, and is apt to result in the teacher's ignominious ejection from the house and family ...
— Venus in Boston; - A Romance of City Life • George Thompson


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