Noun
Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.
Banishment; exclusion; as, social ostracism.
Source: Webster's dictionarythe association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry Source: Internet
According to Plutarch, the people then become disgusted with ostracism and abandoned the procedure forever. Source: Internet
After Thucydides' ostracism, Pericles was re-elected yearly to the generalship, the only office he ever officially occupied, although his influence was so great as to make him the de facto ruler of the state. Source: Internet
Economist Jeff Herbener, who calls Rothbard his friend and "intellectual mentor", wrote that Rothbard received "only ostracism" from mainstream academia. Source: Internet
Cited as evidence is his gradual ostracism of those who contributed to his success: Bill Kerr, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Sidney James, and finally his scriptwriters, Galton and Simpson. Source: Internet
Each year the Athenians were asked in the assembly whether they wished to hold an ostracism. Source: Internet