ostracize : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ostracize	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for ostracize
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ostracize v expel from a community or group [syn: banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball] avoid speaking to or dealing with; "Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me" Synonym(s): ostracize, ostracise
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ostracize \Os"tra*cize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ostracized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ostracizing}.] [Gr. [?], fr. [?] a tile, a tablet used in voting, a shell; cf. [?] oyster, [?] bone. Cf. {Osseous}, {Oyster}.] 1. (Gr. Antiq.) To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens. --Grote. 2. To banish from society; to put under the ban; to cast out from social, political, or private favor; as, he was ostracized by his former friends. --Marvell.