Verb

(es)

(label) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.

#(with simple direct object)

#:If you don't stop talking blasphemes, I will banish you.

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#:He was banished from the kingdom.

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#*, Ch.V, Modern Library, 1999, p.640:

#*:Now for Christ's love, said Sir Launcelot, keep it in counsel, and let no man know it in the world, for I am sore ashamed that I have been thus miscarried; for I am banished out of the country of Logris for ever, that is for to say the country of England.

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#*, II.10:

#*:he never referreth any one unto vertue, religion, or conscience: as if they were all extinguished and banished the world.

#*1796 , (Matthew Lewis), The Monk , Folio Society, 1985, p.190:

#*:Then yours she will never be! You are banished her presence; her mother has opened her eyes to your designs, and she is now upon her guard against them.

To expel, especially from the mind.

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Verb

(excell)

To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something.

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    La Rochefoucauld, the French philosopher, said: "If
you want enemies, excel' your friends; but if you want
friends, let your friends '''excel''' you."
    Why is that true? Because when our friends '''excel''' us,
that gives them a feeling of importance; but when we ' excel
them, that gives them a feeling of inferiority and arouses
envy and jealousy.

I excelled everyone else with my exam results.

To be much better than others.

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* 1924 : ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics . Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 2.

If, then, there is something in what the poets say, and jealousy is natural to the divine power, it would probably occur in this case above all, and all who excelled in this knowledge would be unfortunate.

(rare) To exceed, to go beyond

* 1674 , Paradise lost, , by Milton

She opened; but to shut / Excelled her power: the gates wide open stood

* XIX century , , by Emily Dickinson

I reason, we could die : / The best vitality / Cannot excel decay; / But what of that?