ἐκβολ-ή, ἡ,
(ἐκβάλλω) throwing out, ψήφων ἐ. casting the votes out of the urn, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 748. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2jettisoning of cargo, [[ [prev. author] “Th.” 769 (Lyric poetry), 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1110a9, NT.Act.27.18 ] NT+4th c.BC+] (but simply, unloading, [[ Sammelb. 1207): _metaphorically_, ἐ. τῆς δόξης] Refs] casting out of it, getting rid of it, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 230b, “R.” 412e; ἐ. ἐλέου 4th-5th c.AD: Aphthonius Rhetor “Προγυμνάσματα - Rhet.” 7, compare 2nd c.AD: Diogenes Oenoandensis Epicureus 4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II expulsion, banishment, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 421 (Lyric poetry, _plural_); μετὰ τὴν τῶν τυράννων ἐ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1275b36; ἐκβολαὶ ἐκ τῆς πόλεως 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 847b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; dislodgement, ejection, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.8.4. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II.2 divorce, repudiation, γυναικός [[ 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Declamationes” 26.45. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__III letting fall or drop, δακρύων ἐκβολαί [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 742 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐ. [ὀδόντων] casting or shedding of teeth, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 789a15. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__IV expulsion of a foetus, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.78. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]