Word Finder - ostracism

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In ancient Athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state.

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Banishment by some general consent.

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Temporary exclusion from a community or society.

She broke taboos, risking ostracism and derision in the process.

Certain writers have even spoken of the "honour" of ostracism.

All websites with average or below average content become victims of isolation and cyber ostracism.

Bream are usually despised for the table in England, but fish from large lakes, if well prepared, are by no means deserving of ostracism.

Since interaction matrix elements were reduced only by theft, only non-normative agents faced ostracism.

When children are actively disliked by peers and the victims of teasing or ostracism, the task is harder for parents and teachers and the likelihood of the child reestablishing positive peer relations without help decreases.

The conflict between the two leaders ended in the ostracism of Aristides, at a date variously given between 485 and 482.

While in Russia this took the form of actual massacre, in Germany and Austria it assumed the shape of social and civic ostracism.

It is an extraordinary fact that, if ostracism was introduced in 598 B.C. for the purpose of expelling Hipparchus it was not till twenty years later that he was condemned.

The whites who were responsible for the conduct of the blacks were warned or driven away by social and business ostracism or by violence.

With the end of the Persian Wars, the original object of ostracism was removed, but it continued in use for forty years and was revived in 417 B.C. It now became a mere party weapon and the farcical result of its use in 417 in the case of Hyperbolus led to its abolition either at once, or, as Lugebil seeks to prove, in the archonship of Euclides (403 B.C.).

The change in Athenian foreign policy, which was consequent upon the ostracism of Cimon in 461, led to what is sometimes called the First Peloponnesian War, in which the brunt of the fighting fell upon Corinth and Aegina.

We find seven of the Particiachi, five Candiani and three Orseoli reigning in almost unbroken succession, until, with the ostracism of the whole Orseolo family in 1032, the dynastic tendency was crushed for ever.

As in the case of other privilegia, ostracism did not take effect unless six thousand votes in all were recorded.

The date of his death is given by Nepos as 468; at any rate he lived to witness the ostracism of Themistocles, towards whom he always displayed a generous conduct, but had died before the rise of Pericles.

At Athens, with the increase of commerce and political interest, it was found advisable to call public meetings at the Pnyx or the temple of Dionysus; but the important assemblies, such as meetings for ostracism, were held in the agora.

In Athens in the sixth prytany of each year the representatives of the Boule asked the Ecclesia whether it was for the welfare of the state that ostracism should take place.

Grote maintains that ostracism was a useful device, on the grounds that it removed the danger of tyranny, and was better than the perpetual civil strife of the previous century.

The period of Cimon's administration, however, especially the interval between his victory on the Eurymedon and his ostracism (468-461 B.C.), was marked by great architectural activity in the lower city as well as on the citadel.

Although we hear of attempts to seize the tyranny and of an institution called petalism, like the Athenian ostracism, designed to guard against such dangers, popular government was not seriously threatened for more than fifty years.