premise: to <mask> one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to <mask> the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study.
hypothesis: the best context for <mask> here is To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away.; but not To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach.