Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Reject

Reject (r?-j?kt") , transitive verb

[Latin rejectus, past participle of reicere, rejicere; pref. re- re- + jacere to throw: compare French rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. See Jet a shooting forth.]

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. — Milton
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.