Reject /(r?-j?kt")/

Re·ject

Reject

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Rejected; p. pr. & vb. n. Rejecting

  1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.
    Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers.
    — Robynson (More's Utopia).
    Reject me not from among thy children.
    — Wisdom ix. 4.
  2. To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.
    That golden scepter which thou didst reject.
    Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me.
    — Hos. iv. 6.
  3. To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.