different between banish vs fleme

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 1

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English fl?ema (“fugitive, exile, outlaw”).

Noun

fleme (plural flemes)

1. (obsolete) One who is banished; an exile; outcast; fugitive.

Related terms

• outfleme

Etymology 2

From Middle English flemen, from Old English fl?man, fl?eman (“to put to flight, drive away, banish”), from fl?am (“flight”).

Alternative forms

• fleem

Verb

fleme (third-person singular simple present flemes, present participle fleming, simple past and past participle flemed)

1. (obsolete) To drive away, chase off; to banish.

   • Sir kynge, ye ded a fowle shame whan ye flemyd Sir Trystram oute of thys contrey, for ye nedid nat to have doughted no knyght and he had bene here.

Middle English

Noun

fleme

1. Alternative form of flewme