1838 Biblical Repertory Apr. 241 ‘He is an outcaste man’, would cause a crowd to start aside to escape the defilement of his touch.

1894 R. Kipling Jungle Bk. 37 They have no law. They are outcaste.

1942 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 7 45 The Bohemians of another community were similarly an out-caste group.

1967 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 32 837/1 There is in Japan an outcaste group called Eta.., constituting over two million or two percent of the total population.

1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 June 9/2 The traditional outcaste areas, known as buraku, literally hamlets, are well-known, and people born in them, the burakumin, still have a hard time getting jobs in mainstream companies.

1845 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 8 111 The Brahmin and the outcaste may be found occupying neighbouring beds in the same wards without repugnance.

1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 191 On a forfeiture of caste by either spouse intercourse ceases between the spouses; if the outcaste be a sonless woman, she is accounted dead.

1921 E. M. Forster Let. 17 May in Hill of Devi (1953) 80 The violent bangbang of the Sweepers, outcastes but loyal subjects who stood at the side of the road hitting sieves with shovels.

1955 Times 14 July 11/4 He visited the Ainu,..the Etas (those mysterious outcastes), and strip-tease shows.

1988 Man Mar. 219 Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney examines..the meanings assigned to the monkey and the ‘special status’ people (often referred to as ‘outcastes’) who produce the monkey performances still popular in Japan.

1867 Native Opinion 1 Dec. A man will be outcasted if he observes mourning for one day instead of two, or partakes of boiled rice with his coat on.

1889 Times 21 Oct. 5/3 Two members of the Jain community have recently been outcasted by their co-religionists for visiting England.

1915 R. Kipling New Army vi. 64 What will be the position..of the young man who has deliberately elected to outcaste himself from this all-embracing brotherhood?

1936 V. Elwin Leaves from Jungle 200 A wedding has been arranged..between Tutta Gond (outcasted for eating with Christians) and Phagni Pankin (outcasted for having flirted with a Mussalman two years ago).

1965 Sher Singh Sansis of Punjab ix. 188 If a Sansi takes food from a Choohra, Mazahbi, Chamar or other lower castes, he is outcast and fined.

1974 H. G. Burger in Gen. Systems 19 59/1 Thus an outcasted person (group II) may feel nervousness—which in turn produces physiological disturbances (cf. type I) like headache.