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Oust   /aʊst/   Listen
verb
Oust  v. t.  (past & past part. ousted; pres. part. ousting)  
1.
To take away; to remove. "Multiplication of actions upon the case were rare, formerly, and thereby wager of law ousted."
2.
To eject; to expel; to turn out. "From mine own earldom foully ousted me."


noun
Oust  n.  See Oast.





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"Oust" Quotes from Famous Books



... any other person or persons whatever. And I do hereby further Authorize and impower the sd Joshua Lamb his heirs Execrs and Admrs and assigns to enter upon and possess himself of all and every of the premises and to Oust, eject and expel any person or persons whatsoever pretending any ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. V, May, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... Your wickedness was only the natural man's desire to possess the woman. Mine was not the reciprocal wish till envy stimulated me to oust Arabella. I had thought I ought in charity to let you approach me—that it was damnably selfish to torture you as I did my other friend. But I shouldn't have given way if you hadn't broken me down by making me fear you would go back to her... But don't let us say any more about it! Jude, ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... difficult to decide the priority between them; but I have put industrialism first, because, unless it is developed very soon by the Chinese, foreigners will have acquired such a strong hold that it will be very difficult indeed to oust them. These reasons have decided me that our three problems ought to be taken in ...
— The Problem of China • Bertrand Russell
... vastly increased its output and the machinery of distribution. Not content with controlling the market for crude oil, it has during the last few years obtained the possession of larger and larger portions of the oil-producing country, forming companies to acquire mining rights, sink wells, and oust the private producers from whom it had previously been content to purchase the raw ...
— The Evolution of Modern Capitalism - A Study of Machine Production • John Atkinson Hobson
... who remarked on Shakespeare's depiction of character had not suspected that the examination of it was to oust the older methods. ...
— Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare • D. Nichol Smith


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