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off-cast, offcast, ppl. a. and n.|ˈɒfkɑːst, ɔː-, -æ-|
Also 6 ofcast.
[f. off adv. + cast, pa. pple. of cast v.]
A. ppl. a. Cast off, rejected. (lit. and fig.)
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xlvii. 10 The ofcast Jews whom their own misbeleif hath banished from the Church. 1637Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 143 Some borrow'd off⁓cast vaine attire. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. To Rdr., The slighted and off-cast words in the mouths of Handy⁓crafts-men. 1821T. Erskine Internal Evid. Relig. iv. 102 Mercy towards this off-cast race.
B. n. A thing or person that is cast off or rejected (lit. or fig.). Cf. outcast.
1587Golding De Mornay xxxii. 515 How would those greate men haue yeelded to such an offcast? 1594J. Davis Seamans Secrets Ded. Wks. (Hakl. Soc.) 236 The worde of God published to the blessed recouery of the forraine of⁓castes. 1852Savage R. Medlicott iii. vi. (1864) 310 The off⁓casts of all the professions—doctors without patients, lawyers without briefs. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. iv. (1856) 30 This wood..is the offcast of the great Siberian and American rivers. Ibid. xlviii. 450 Their offcasts, the bergs.
So ˈoffˌcasting vbl. n., (a) the action of casting off, rejection; (b) concr. that which is cast off.
1589R. Bruce Serm. (1843) 129 Sic a loath, disdain and offcasting of this heavenlie food. 1893Graphic 15 Apr. 415/1 Shabby tweed suits, the offcastings of generations of..tourists. |