casting out
Forcing something out
Casting out means expelling or driving away, often with force or finality.
The phrase suggests removing something unwanted from a place or group: casting out demons, casting out the unbelievers.
In arithmetic, casting out nines is an old method for checking calculations by removing multiples of nine.
The participle form of cast out, it carries connotations of rejection or banishment that the simpler "throwing out" lacks.
- exorcismRitual to expel demons
- banishOfficially send away
- expelRemove forcibly from membership
- demonMalevolent supernatural being
- unclean spiritMalevolent possessing entity
purge · evil · spirit · cleanse · rejection · exile · oust · possession · ritual · priest · holy water · deliverance · be gone · sin · repent · nine · devils · fallen angel
- driving awayrepelling, banishing, warding off, fending off, shooing
- Biblical Supernaturalsorcery, witchcraft, magic, demons, exorcism
- excommunicationexpulsion, banishment, anathema, disfellowship, cutting off
- exileexile, banishment, exiled, banished, exiling
- exorcismexorcism, exorcist, demon, possession, possessed
- expulsionsejection, ousting, expelling, eviction, removal
casting outtaking in
Receiving into oneself
admitting · letting in · including · accepting · receiving
casting outinvoking
Calling upon formally
summoning · conjuring · channeling · calling in · calling upon
casting outadopting
Taking as one's own
integrating · assimilating · enfolding · reinstating · reintegrating
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