斥 (reject, retreat, recede, withdraw, repel, repulse)

国を思う志士を排斥して内乱を引き起こした。

They have expelled the patriots who are concerned for the nation and caused domestic conflicts.

「・・・入学の翌年18年の夏、自ら首謀者になって同盟休学を扇動し、同時に教官を排斥してその命に応ぜず、即ち校則を妄り軍紀を乱す者たるの故を以って、校長小澤武雄中将の怒りに触れ、遂に退校処分に附されることとなった。…

In the summer of 1885, the year after entering the school, he himself became a ringleader and instigated a joint school boycott, drove away the instructors and disobeyed their orders, thereby violating school regulations and disturbing military discipline, which angered Principal Lieutenant General Takeo Ozawa, and he was finally expelled from the school.