v. [ad. L. extrūd-ĕre, f. ex- out + trudĕre to thrust.]
1. trans. To thrust (a person) out or forth; to urge or force out; to expel. Const. from, † out of, and † with double obj. by omission of from.
a. with obj. a person.
1570. Levins, Manip., 183. To Extrude, extrudere.
1586. Warner, Alb. Eng., IV. xxii. (1612), 110. Let not a Traytors periur’d Sonne extrude vs from our right.
1601. B. Jonson, Poetaster, III. i. Say he should extrude me his house to-day.
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., IV. (1626), 72.
| Others, that all is possible, conclude, | |
| To true-styl’d Gods: but, Bacchus they extrude. |
1795. Wythe, Decis. Virginia, 49. From which any man with a military warrant might extrude the proprietor.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., V. ii. Your Third Estate shall suddenly see itself extruded from its Hall.
b. with obj. a material thing; in mod. use esp. to exclude (an embryo, ova, etc.). Also occas. with sense ‘to protrude out.’
1566. Painter, Pal. Pleas., I. 78. The like also some do attempt by deuises and subtile secretes to extrude theyr conceptions.
1615. G. Sandys, Trav., 102. The Riuer … bringing downe earth with his deluges, and extruding the sea by little and little.
1676. Phil. Trans., XI. 770. The bloud from the heart … is again extruded. Ibid. (1786), LXXVI. 161. The animal … easily contrives to extrude itself.
1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 700/2. The number of eggs extruded by each individual is very great.
1848. Clough, Amours de Voy., III. 91. Ye … extrude from the ocean your helpless faces.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, Introd. 47. The embryos are extruded from the uterine cavities.
c. with an immaterial thing as obj.
1598. Yong, Diana, 137. All hate shall be extruded.
1629. T. Hawkins, Elegy, in Sir J. Beaumont’s Bosworth F., 7. Loose Humous vent, and Ballad-Line extrude.
a. 1745. Swift, Char. P—te M—h. Wit … was extruded from his head to make room for other men’s thoughts.
1856. Faber, Creator & Creature, I. i. (1886), 8. The idea of God … is … extruded … by the press of matter.
1869. M. Arnold, Cult. & An. (1882), p. xxxii. Presbyterianism was only extruded gradually.
2. intr. for refl. To protrude out. rare.
1852. Dana, Crust., I. 670. It may be made to extrude by a little pressure.
1865. ‘Umbra,’ Trav., 18. The great fount exclusively, the basin of which … extrudes like a large boil from the plain.
Hence Extruded ppl. a.
1687. N. Johnston, Assur. Abby Lands, 43. The Canons of the Church and the Popes Authority were no ways questioned by the extruded.
a. 1761. Law, trans. Behmen’s Myst. Magnum, xvii. (1772), 71. In the Stead and Place of extruded Lucifer.
1875. Buckland, Log-Bk., 110. With open mouth and extruded tongue.
1881. Blackie, Lay Serm., i. 55. An extruded cat moans woefully.
