Ostracize v. t. (past & past part. ostracized; pres. part. ostracizing)
1.
(Gr. Antiq.) To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.
2.
To banish from society, by a general consent; to exclude from social, political, or private favor; to exclude from conversation or friendship; to shun; as, he was ostracized by his former friends. A person may be ostracized by a formal vote or by a widespread but informal agreement.
... coming to a final contest with Thucydides, which of the two should ostracize the other out of the country, and having gone through this peril, he threw his antagonist out, and broke up the confederacy that had been organized against him. So that now all schism and division being at an end, and the city brought to evenness and unity, he got all Athens and all affairs ... — Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough
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