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- (transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
- (by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.
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- Lesbian studies scholar Ramona Oswald has extended this criticism by arguing that traditions such as the bouquet toss and the "singles" table at the wedding reception often marginalize and ostracize lesbians and gays in attendance.
- Suburbanites infamously ostracize those outside of their social and neighborhood circles. They ostracize the divorced and the poor, and they are often mean-spirited gossips. They are infamous for slutting up teenage daughters with immodest clothing and the acceptance of trashy role models, and they are infamous for cheerleader training, which includes the lessons of social ostracism. Many suburbanites belong to community-based country clubs, which, via consensus, define further ostracism rules.
- Children ostracize other children in the playground, choosing carefully who they wish to play with. Adults ostracize other adults, such as marriage partners using the silent treatment.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | ostracized | Partisiipin perfekti | ostracizing |
| Imperfekti | ostracized | Imperfekti | ostracizing |
| Partisiipin preesens | ostracizing | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | ostracizes |
(transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
Three Ancient Greek ostraca inscribed with the names Themistokles and Neokleos, which were used to vote for whether those persons should be ostracized from the city; the procedure was called ostracism.
(transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
Ostraca from 482 BC voting in favor of ostracizing Themistocles
(transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
Bust of Themistocles, who was exiled via ostracism and fled to Argos around 471 or 472 BC, despite an impactful military career