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/ˈɒstɹəsɪz(ə)m/ · noun
(historical) In ancient Athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state..
For this manner of banishment for a time, called ostracismos, was no punishment for any fault committed, but a mitigation and taking away of the envy of the people, which delighted to pluck down their stomacks that too much seemed to exceed in greatness: […]
Take the ſweete herbe called pleaſant content; with that make a perfume about your bed chamber and where you dyne: the ſavour of this is as ſure a repulſe to exile melancholie, as the oſtracisme was to the noble of Athens.
Witnesse the Ostracisme amongst the Athenians, and the Petalisme among the Siracusans.
If I have deserved the land should spue me out, I will feed my selfe with the idle and windy conceite of an Ostracisme, and my unregarded poore selfe shall be all the richesse and commpany I crave to transport and if a Princes word […]
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Ostracism means (historical) In ancient Athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state..
Common synonyms include ostracization, petalism, shunning, avoidance.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
For this manner of banishment for a time, called ostracismos, was no punishment for any fault committed, but a mitigation and taking away of the envy of the people, which delighted to pluck down their stomacks that too much seemed to exceed in greatness: […]
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