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rejected

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re·ject  (r-jkt)
tr.v. re·ject·ed, re·ject·ing, re·jects
1. To refuse to accept, submit to, believe, or make use of.
2. To refuse to consider or grant; deny.
3. To refuse to recognize or give affection to (a person).
4. To discard as defective or useless; throw away. See Synonyms at refuse1.
5. To spit out or vomit.
6. Medicine To resist immunologically the introduction of (a transplanted organ or tissue); fail to accept as part of one's own body.
n. (rjkt)
One that has been rejected: a reject from the varsity team; a tire that is a reject.
[Middle English rejecten, from Latin ricere, riect- : re-, re- + iacere, to throw; see y- in Indo-European roots.]
re·jecter, re·jector n.
re·jective adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.rejected - rebuffed (by a lover) without warning; "jilted at the altar"
jilted, spurned
unloved - not loved
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At Lacedaemon the choregus himself played on the flute; and it was so common at Athens that almost every freeman understood it, as is evident from the tablet which Thrasippus dedicated when he was choregus; but afterwards they rejected it as dangerous; having become better judges of what tended to promote virtue and what did not.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
And lastly, that the novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be held for a suspect; and, as the Scripture saith, that we make a stand upon the ancient way, and then look about us, and discover what is the straight and right way, and so to walk in it.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
Many exquisite viands might be rejected by the epicure, if it was a sufficient cause for his contemning of them as common and vulgar, that something was to be found in the most paltry alleys under the same name.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
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