offthrow

plural offthrows · alternative off-throw

1. countableuncountableThe act of throwing off; (by extension) liberation

   Improbable, therefore, it is that the offthrow of the Ottoman yoke by the former, will not be followed by the offthrow of the German and Russian yokes by the latter, Nationalities.

   1879, John S. Stuart-Glennie, Europe and Asia

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   The theory of a rise of a dome of strata from beneath the sea and the offthrow of the waters on all sides from that dome, their escape through lateral fractures in the upheaved chalk, together with a slow wearing back of the fractured and denuded edges of the chalk in the form of cliffs, […]

   1871, The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, page 3

   A general ferment, in fact, far different from the anarchy and barbaric invasions, was set up over Europe by these vast offthrows of activity by the French nobles, who thereby unconsciously made amends for the temporary misery they inflicted on their own country.

   2013, C. W. Previté-Orton, Outlines of Medieval History, page 194

2. countableuncountableThat which is thrown off (i.e. discarded, ejected, or emitted)

   These are the sports, the offthrows, of the universe instead of the species; these are the weird children of the lust of the spheres.

   2002, Charles G. Finney, The Circus of Dr. Lao, page 50

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   […] comparatively speaking, few are convinced of, or perhaps acquainted with the fact, that not only do the bed-clothes intercept and retain a large proportion of this offthrow, but that it penetrates both beds and mattresses, which actually absorb a large proprtion of it, […]

   1848, Clifton Cleve, The book of inventions, page 20

   In this latter or northern offthrow, nearly the whole of Peeblesshire consists, and the general dip or inclination of its rocks is accordingly northerly, or more strictly, towards north-north-west.

   1864, William Chambers, A History of Peeblesshire, page 515

   One has, in fact, the old choice of regarding the higher integrations as queer offthrows of an infinitely improbable lower-order accident, or as the explanatory foundation of all that leads up to them.

   2004, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arnold V. Miller, Hegel's Philosophy of Nature

   In its wake the ship leaves a photonic track so intense that it could be gathered up and weighed. It is the stardrive that issues this light: a ship eats space, and light is its offthrow.

   2013, Robert Silverberg, Sailing to Byzantium

   If Herta wished to burden herself with an extra mouth during the lean months, the care of a stranger's offthrow — that was her business.

   2014, Andre Norton, Tales from High Hallack Volume Three

present singular third person offthrows · participle present offthrowing · past offthrew · participle past offthrown · alternative off-throw

1. ambitransitiveTo throw or cast off (all senses)

   "[…] I stand a scarecrow in this land That offthrew the yoke of autocracy."

   1933, Corliss Lamont, Margaret Lamont, Russia Day by Day: A Travel Diary, volume 20, page 35

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   Thorns of the flesh in childhood man offthrows, Or passions such in headlong youth he knows; […]

   1858, John Ashford, London; Past, Present and Future, page 9