Origin and history of expulsion

late 15c., projeccioun, in alchemy, "transmutation by casting a powder on molten metal," from Old French projeccion and directly from Latin proiectionem (nominative proiectio) "a throwing forward, a stretching out," noun of action from past-participle stem of proicere "stretch ou

1540s, "the expulsion of the fetus before it is viable," originally of deliberate as well as unintended miscarriages; from...In 19c. some effort was made to distinguish abortion "expulsion of the fetus between 6 weeks and 6 months" from miscarriage...[Century Dictionary, 1899] Foeticide (n.) appears 1823 as a forensic medical term for deliberate premature fatal expulsion...

late 14c., desolacioun, "sorrow, grief, personal affliction;" c. 1400, "action of laying waste, destruction or expulsion...

recorded from 1640s in reference to the English Rump Parliament (December 1648-April 1653), so called from sitting after the expulsion...

In English, the word in the general sense of "expulsion, exclusion" (from society, etc.) is by early 17c....

established political or social system" is recorded by c. 1600, derived from French, and was especially applied in England to the expulsion...

[ Relegatio] allowed the expulsion of a citizen from Rome by magisterial decree....

1620, "the action of throwing out of a window," from Latin fenestra "window." A word invented for one incident: the "Defenestration of Prague," May 21, 1618, when two Catholic deputies to the Bohemian national assembly and a secretary were tossed out the window of the castle of H

c. 1600, "press forcibly" (transitive), perhaps an alteration of quease (Middle English quisen), from Old English cwysan "to squeeze," a word of unknown origin, perhaps imitative (compare German quetschen "to squeeze"). It perhaps also has been altered by influence of many words

c. 1600, "act of pouring or rushing back," chiefly medical (of blood, digestive fluid, etc.), from Medieval Latin regurgitationem (nominative regurgitatio), noun of action from past-participle stem of regurgitare "to overflow," from re- "back" (see re-) + Late Latin gurgitare "en