different between banish vs dister

English

Etymology

From Middle English banysshen, from Old French banir (“to proclaim, ban, banish”) and Old English bannan, from Proto-Germanic *bannan? (“curse, forbid”). Compare to French bannir.

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?n'?sh, IPA^(key): /?bæn??/
• Rhymes: -æn??

Verb

banish (third-person singular simple present banishes, present participle banishing, simple past and past participle banished)

1. (heading) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
   1. (with simple direct object)

      If you don't stop talking blasphemies, I will banish you.

   2. (with from)

      He was banished from the kingdom.
   3. (dated, with out of)
   4. (archaic, with two simple objects (person and place))
      • , 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.

2. To expel, especially from the mind.

Related terms

• banishment

Translations

Further reading

• banish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• banish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• banish at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Bhasin, ash-bin, ashbin, bash in, bashin', nisbah

English

Etymology

From Latin dis- + terra (“earth, country”); compare Spanish and Portuguese desterrar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s?t??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

dister (third-person singular simple present disters, present participle disterring, simple past and past participle disterred)

1. (obsolete) To banish or drive from a country.
   • March 1 1621, James Howell, letter to Dr. Francis Mansel

     many thousands were disterred and banished hence to Barbary

References

dister in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Stride, direst, disert, driest, drites, redist, ridest, stride