Definition of Ostracized

1. Verb. (past of ostracize) ¹

2. Adjective. blackballed ¹

3. Adjective. banished by ostracism ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ostracized

1. ostracize [v] - See also: ostracize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostracized

ostracion
ostraciont
ostracionts
ostracise
ostracised
ostracises
ostracising
ostracism
ostracisms
ostracite
ostracites
ostracizable
ostracization
ostracizations
ostracize
ostracized (current term)
ostracizes
ostracizing
ostracod
ostracoda
ostracode
ostracoderm
ostracodermi
ostracoderms
ostracodes
ostracods
ostracoid
ostracoidea
ostracoids
ostracon

Literary usage of Ostracized

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Cimon was ostracized ; and the exasperation of the conservative party was shown by the The period known as "the age of Pericles" may be roughly defined as ..."

2. The Pilgrims, Puritans and Roger Williams Vindicated: And His Sentence of by Titus Mooney Merriman (1892)
"SECTION I. ROGER WILLIAMS ostracized, LEAVES MASS. BAY. WELL might Roger Williams now say, as he did when bishop Laud pursued him out of England; ..."

3. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, with by William Smith (1855)
"He is ostracized. § 11. Pausanias convicted of Med- ism. § 12. Themistocles implicated in his Guilt. ..."

4. Twenty Years Among Our Hostile Indians: Describing the Characteristics by James Lee Humfreville (1903)
"Half-Famished Dogs—Ignorance of the Sign Language—Marriage Unknown among Them—Eating Raw Fish—ostracized by Every One—How a Sick Digger was Taken Care ..."

5. Cyclopedia of the Universal Biography: A Record of the Names of the Most by Parke Godwin (1855)
"... country by tlio spoils he wrested from the enemy, the party of Pericles caused him to bo ostracized, ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1904)
"Ostracism did not include forfeiture of property. Among the distinguished persons ostracized were Themistocles, Aristides, and Cimon, son of Miltiades. ..."

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