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rejected, ppl. a.|rɪˈdʒɛktɪd|
[f. reject v. + -ed1.]
a. Refused, repudiated, cast out, etc.; spec. in Psychol., refused or denied the normal relationship between parent and child (cf. reject v. 6 d).
1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 57 The commons can..annex the rejected bills to their bill of aids. 1819Shelley Cenci iv. iv. 151 Stain not a noble house With vague surmises of rejected crime. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xix. 191, I lost some time in collecting such parts of his rejected cargo as I could find. 1931Smith Coll. Stud. in Soc. Work I. 407 The problems for which the rejected child was referred were more frequently of the aggressive, rebellious type. 1961H. C. Smith Personality Adjustment xviii. 513 Such severely rejected children tend to develop a general apathy..to all human relationships.
b. Ent. Thrown back; not admitted between other parts.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xlvi. IV. 332 An insect having a visible Scutellum. a. Rejected... When, though visible, it does not intervene between the elytra at their base.
c. Gram. rejected condition (see quots.).
1947Partridge Usage & Abusage 80/2 Those sentences in which the principal clause speaks of what would be or would have been, and in which the if-clause states, or implies, a negative. Grammarians call this: Rejected Condition, as in ‘If wishes were horses, beggars would ride’. 1957R. W. Zandvoort Handbk. Eng. Gram. v. ii. 218 Clauses expressing a condition that is not, or is not likely to be, realized [I should not mind so much, if I was not so busy] are called clauses of rejected condition. |