0 present participle of banish
1 to send someone away, especially from their country, and not allow them to come back:
Again, the dangerous banishing rituals performed by these high priests of art are obvious only to the non-spectator.
He takes pride in walking point and assuming the unofficial leadership of his platoon, banishing the impersonality and randomness of modern war.
If revealed-preference theory succeeded in banishing a subjective notion of preference from economics, it would also have to banish beliefs, expectations, and subjective probabilities.
Either way, invoking the changeling legend to explain such behavior is potentially dangerous, as the traditional method of banishing a changeling is to burn it.
So, after the rationalist tendency in social sciences had more or less succeeded in banishing identity and culture, they have now come back with a vengeance.
It was a great evil because there is nothing more cruel than banishing a man from his own people.
No one wants war but hate and derogatory remarks such as we have heard to-day will never succeed in banishing war between nations.
I myself dream of banishing the word unemployment from our vocabulary and this is more than just rhetorical.
