Obs. [f. prec. + -ER1.] One who or that which expels or drives out; in senses of the vb. Const. of.
1540. Hyrde, trans. Vives’ Instr. Chr. Wom. (1592), Aa vj. The man standeth as it were in the middest between his mother and his wife: and so either of them hateth other, as an expulser of her selfe.
1546. Langley, Pol. Verg. De Invent., I. xiii. (1560), 24 b. The Science of Philosophy which Tully calleth the … expulser of vyce.
1605. Timme, Quersit., III. 148. Nature … stirreth up the expulser, and prouoketh it to send forth the excrements.
1823. D’Israeli, Cur. Lit. (1858), III. 424. The expulser of the Tarquins.
