I.to drive out or away, to expel, exile, banish (rare, save in Cic. and eccl. Lat.; syn.: expello, eicio, proicio, al.).
I. Lit.: “C. Marcellum exterminandum ex illa urbe curavit,” Cic. Sest. 4, 9; cf.: “haec tanta virtus (i. e. Milo) ex hac urbe expelletur, exterminabitur, proicietur?” id. Mil. 37, 101: “aliquem ex hominum communitate,” id. Off. 3, 6, 32: “aliquem de civitate,” id. Balb. 22, 51: “aliquem a suis diis penatibus (with expellere a patria),” id. Sest. 13, 30: “aliquem urbe atque agro,” id. N. D. 1, 23, 63: “peregrinos,” id. Off. 3, 11, 47: “aliquem,” id. Rep. 3, 17: “fucos in totum,” Col. 9, 15, 2: herbam sulcis, id. poët. 10, 149.—Pass. in mid. force: “cubiculo protinus exterminatur,” App. M. 2, p. 125 fin.—
II. Trop., to put away, put aside, remove: “auctoritatem vestram e civitate,” Cic. Prov. Cons. 2, 3: “quaestiones physicorum,” id. Ac. 2, 41, 127: “sic exterminatus animi atque attonitus,” deprived of senses, senseless, App. M. 3, p. 138, 37 Hildebr.—
III. To abolish, extirpate, destroy (late Lat.; “syn.: exstirpo, deleo, etc.),” Vulg. Sap. 16, 27; id. Apoc. 11, 18 et saep.
