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▪ I. ouster1 Law.|ˈaʊstə(r)| [AF. ouster vb. inf. (see prec.) used sbst.: see -er4.] a. Ejection from a freehold or other possession, deprivation of a corporeal or incorporeal hereditament. Also, eviction (from office, etc.) by judicial process or as a result of revolution or political upheaval.
1531Dial. on Laws Eng. ii. liv. (1638) 163 An immediate putting out of the plaintife, which in French is called an ouster. 1642tr. Perkins' Prof. Bk. ix. §600 After the ouster, and before his entry. 1721St. German's Doctor & Stud. 337 To save themselves from confessing of an Ouster. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. x. 167 Ouster, or dispossession, is a wrong or injury that carries with it the amotion of possession. fig.1888Traill Will. III 169 To this virtual ‘ouster’ of their jurisdiction over the question the Lords very naturally objected. b. In lay use: dismissal, expulsion; the action of manœuvring out of (a place or position). Now chiefly U.S.
1961P. Holmes Sheppard Murder Case ix. 82 Mr. Y, who had been asked no questions about a possible criminal record, had answered in the negative when asked if he had ever been a witness in any court. If it could be shown that Mr. Y had testified at his 1943 trial this answer could be made the basis for his ouster. 1967K. Giles Death in Diamonds ix. 164 Mary Smith had to leave because of her bad influence on the other girls. She was fifteen when she got the ouster. 1968Telegraph (Brisbane) 3 May 11/1 Mr. Cecil Harmsworth King lost his job as chairman of the International Publishing Corporation in a ‘palace revolution’ by his own directors. The ouster came three weeks after..a critical article. 1972Newsweek 10 Jan. 25/3 When the court ouster came, the vets..marched out, clenched fists raised. 1973Listener 20 Dec. 842/1 It is the hope..that enough damning evidence would be found to force the ouster of the President overnight—to make him resign. 1974Spartanburg (S. Carolina) Herald 22 Apr. A1/2–3 The report..forced the resignation of Lt. Gen. David Elazar, the military chief of staff, and fueled demands for the ouster of Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. 1975N.Y. Times 12 Sept. 6/1 The Communists appeared eager not to be isolated from power as a result of the recent ouster from the premiership and the High Council of the Revolution of Gen. Vasco Gonçalves, whom they had backed. 1976Honolulu Star-Bull. 21 Dec. a–2/2 Hay said one problem still open in Chile concerns persons missing since Allende's ouster and death. 1977Time 9 May 17/2 He was especially anxious to court the Kremlin in view of the rapid cooling of the U.S.'s interest in Ethiopia following the junta's ouster of the Emperor. ▪ II. ˈouster2 [f. oust v. + -er1.] One who ousts.
1886Blackmore Springhaven x, Ousters and filibusters, in the form of railway companies and communists. |