ostracize
verbGraduateELO 1,550GRECAT
DEFINITION
expel from a community or group
WEBSTER'S 1913
To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.
ETYMOLOGY
Greek 'ostrakon' (tile or potsherd used for voting)
IN LITERATURE
“Cooke was out on the golf links, chaperoning some of the Asquith young women whose mothers had not seen fit to ostracize Mohair.”
— Winston Churchill, Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
IN USE
“Those who contract such alliances, as also their offspring, the divine laws not only ostracize but declare accursed, while the civil laws brand them as infamous and deprive them of hereditary rights.”
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