Hypertext Webster Gateway: "castaway"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Castaway
Gr. adokimos, (1 Cor. 9:27), one regarded as unworthy (R.V.,
"rejected"); elsewhere rendered "reprobate" (2 Tim. 3:8, etc.);
"rejected" (Heb. 6:8, etc.).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Castaway \Cast"a*way\, n.
1. One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.
2. One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a
reprobate.
Lest . . . when I have preached to others, I myself
should be a castaway. --1 Cor. ix.
27.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Castaway \Cast"a*way\, a.
Of no value; rejected; useless.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
castaway
adj 1: suffering the misfortune of shipwreck; "shipwrecked
sailors"; "castaways marooned on a desert island"
[syn: {shipwrecked}]
2: cast off as valueless [syn: {castaway(a)}, {rejected}]
n 1: a person who is rejected (from society or home) [syn: {outcast},
{pariah}, {Ishmael}]
2: a shipwrecked person [syn: {shipwreck survivor}]
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