Ostracize

Word OSTRACIZE
Character 9
Hyphenation os tra cize
Pronunciations /ˈɒstɹəsaɪz/

Definitions and meanings of "Ostracize"

What do we mean by ostracize?

To exclude from a group or society. transitive verb

To banish by ostracism, as in ancient Greece. transitive verb

To exile by ostracism; banish by popular vote, as persons dreaded for their influence or power were banished by the ancient Athenians. See ostracism, 1.

Hence To banish from society; put under the ban; exclude from public or private favor.

Also spelled ostracise.

To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens. transitive verb

To banish from society, by a general consent; to exclude from social, political, or private favor; to exclude from conversation or friendship; to shun. A person may be ostracized by a formal vote or by a widespread but informal agreement. transitive verb

To exclude (a person) from society or from a community, by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to talk to or associate with; to shun. verb

Avoid speaking to or dealing with verb

Expel from a community or group verb

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.

To shun one away from the rest of a group Urban Dictionary

An exercise program for ostriches. Urban Dictionary

To find and place an ostrich in a strategic logcation that inevitably lead to its attacking an enemy Urban Dictionary

The act of turning someone into an ostrich Urban Dictionary

A extremely large cock that is about 30cm long and when you have a boner it is 30 METERS LONG. Urban Dictionary

To exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, make fun of, ect. Urban Dictionary

To have erotic sex using multiple different 'toys' such as hand cuffs, whips, chains, birch rods, ect. Urban Dictionary

Banishment or being shunned. The state of being exiled from any society, usually by popular vote, for any reason. Disgrace and idiocy are often key players. Ostracism has its roots in Ancient Athena as a form of quick justice. Urban Dictionary

What happens to old men when they inevitibly develop "long balls". Their nutsack looks like an upside-down ostrich head as viewed from behind. Urban Dictionary

No I'm pretty sure I'm been manually ostracized in the hopes that if you do it long enough you be subordinate me to you're performative collectivism. I have not inherent responsibility to appease a collective that isn't even willing to acknowledge my existence. Give me my freedom or I'm going to make you take it. Urban Dictionary

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The word "ostracize" in example sentences

"since it's your duty to ostracize and bake, _ostracize_ and _bake_, and be done with your ridiculous fancies." ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)

Finally you understand the vocabulary word ostracize. ❋ Mark Jude Poirier (2007)

The group had said it would "ostracize" Ingersoll for its machinery sales in Iran. ❋ Kris Maher (2010)

The group had said it would "ostracize" Ingersoll-Rand for its machinery sales into Iran. ❋ Kris Maher (2010)

Those who are will treat me as become gentlemen, as they do, and those who are not I will thank if they will "ostracize" me, for if they don't I will certainly "ostracize" them. ❋ Unknown (1878)

"ostracize" originated in 1649, after the KJV was written; ἐκβάλλω is best translated as ❋ ChrisBo (2010)

We leave them and each other "flat" when we ostracize only of those who commit the bad actions, while we refrain from realizing how often we succumb to lying or cruelty or negligence by not helping the people who mistreat, who fall, who have blemishes on their behavior. ❋ Carol Smaldino (2011)

Mr. Kim and his younger sister spent much of their teenage years worried that their father would ostracize them and favor their half-siblings born of a later wife, according to accounts from relatives of the Kim family who escaped the country. ❋ Evan Ramstad (2011)

And a shocking number of families—Christians as much as Muslims, in my experience—would ostracize sons or daughters who dared to fall in love outside their sect. ❋ Annia Ciezadlo (2011)

People can “express themselves” by waiving swastikas around; I can yell at them for this, ostracize them, and convince others that it should be socially unacceptable. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While efforts to ostracize Libya from the council are being driven by Europe, the United States and some Latin American countries, Asian and African nations will be wary of setting a precedent that can be used against them or their allies in future, said Peter Splinter of Amnesty International. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We should ostracise [Compton] the [Salesman] for trying to be funny but instead [revealing] that hes an idiot. ❋ Thebeaver (2005)

Carl [the ostrich] ordered his ostracizing [tapes] off of an [infomercial] he saw last Tuesday. ❋ Compton Computer Salesman (2005)

We should ostracize her, [but first] [we need] to find an [ostrich] ❋ Fireguy2513 (2007)

ostracize ostracize ostracize ostracize ostracize ostracize ostracize = [Ostrich] [hopefully] if [i say] it enough you'll understand ostracize ostracize ostracize ostracize ostracize ostracize ostracize ❋ Bagel-B0y (2022)

You have a ostracize ❋ Thick Minds And Gentle Dicks (2020)

"The other girls [ostracized] her because of the way she [dressed]." Girl one:"You see her [dress]?" Girl two: "Yea its way to short and ugly" ❋ _ℙ𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕤𝕤𝔻𝕣𝕒𝕘𝕠𝕟_ (2021)

"[I am] [gonna] ostracize [your mom]." ❋ Tiger Lilly (2007)

After accidently lighting the [Orator's] chariot on fire, [Idious] Maximus knew what was comming... [Ostracism]. ❋ Ryswick (2007)

When I saw [grandpa's] [drooping] ballsack hanging out of his [bermuda shorts],I asked him what was wrong with him,he said; "Son,when you turn 70 you automatically become ostracized." ❋ Wolfbait51 (2011)

Hym "Yeah, see, what it sound like you want is everyone gets their own heaven (or dimension) and some point and if [WE are God], I am also God and I'm telling you no. We're not doing that. You can do a better [job now]. I'm not going to let you FLEE FROM REALITY in the afterlife. You are doing what you're doing NOW. So, you don't get your perfect afterlife. I'm not going to let it happen. I might even make reality worse just to spite you. So yeah... No. This isn't what's going to happen because I'm ALSO God (in the context of you thing) and I'm not going to let you escape the reality your are [subjecting] me to as a matter of your arbitrary whim. So YOU decide. Which version of reality are we in? Because it's not the one where I allow you to do the thing you're talking about. I don't appreciate being [ostracized]. And I don't want to be God. I'm going to stop anything that does anything even remotely analogous to God. I don't care how good it is for everyone. If your [collectivism] doesn't extend DIRECTLY to me IMMEDIATELY then it doesn't exist. No." ❋ Hym Iam (2023)

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