outcast

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈaʊtkɑːst/ (noun, adjective); IPA^(key): /aʊtˈkɑːst/ (verb)
• Homophone: outcaste

From Middle English outcasten, equivalent to out- +‎ cast.

outcast (third-person singular simple present outcasts, present participle outcasting, simple past and past participle outcast)

1. To cast out; to banish. [from 14th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

     All as a blazing starre doth farre outcast / His hearie beames, and flaming lockes dispredd [...].

outcast (comparative more outcast, superlative most outcast)

1. That has been cast out; banished, ostracized. [from 14th c.]
   • Longfellow

     Outcast, rejected.

From Middle English outcaste, outecaste, equivalent to out- +‎ cast.

outcast (plural outcasts)

1. One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah. [from 14th c.]
2. (Scotland) A quarrel.
3. The amount of increase in bulk of grain in malting.

• (pariah): outsider, vagrant, exile, beggar
• See also Thesaurus:outcast

• acts out, cast out, outacts