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.
Milton.
Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that
thou shalt be no priest to me.
Hos. iv. 6.