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Definition of Ostracise
1. Verb. Expel from a community or group.
Generic synonyms: Expel, Kick Out, Throw Out
Derivative terms: Banishment, Blackball, Ostracism, Ostracism, Ostracism, Ostracism
2. Verb. Avoid speaking to or dealing with. "Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me"
Entails: Avoid
Generic synonyms: Exclude, Keep Out, Shut, Shut Out
Specialized synonyms: Boycott
Derivative terms: Ostracism, Ostracism, Ostracism, Ostracism
Definition of Ostracise
1. Verb. (British) (alternative spelling of ostracize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ostracise
1. [v -CISED, -CISING, -CISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostracise
Literary usage of Ostracise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Leaven for Doughfaces, Or, Threescore and Ten Parables Touching Slavery by Darius Lyman (1856)
"The Alien who would ostracise the native Colored Man, should not be surprised to
find himself ostracised by the native White. A NATURALIZED citizen about to ..."
2. American Observer Medical Monthly (1879)
"(2d.) That, in your opinion, the question of potencies is an unimportant one.
(sd.) That, by counseling the discarding of dynamization I would "ostracise" ..."
3. Peril of the Republic by William Arthur Taylor (1886)
"LABOR ITS OWN ENSLAVER. m The process will be slow, but it is not impossible, if
the people will ostracise "business" from politics, and brain demagogues ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"See Osseous and Logic. ostracise, to banish by a vote written on a potsherd.
(Gk.) ' And all that worth from thence did ostracise ; ' Marvel, ..."
5. Report of the Joint Select Committee Appointed to Inquire Into the Condition by Luke Potter Poland, John Scott (1872)
"We do not other than ostracise them. Question. ... Not in the way of bodily
punishment or violence; we ostracise them ; we won't associate with them, ..."
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