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Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.

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  1. n. Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.
  2. n. Banishment; exclusion; as, social ostracism.
  3. n. the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
  4. n. the act of excluding someone from society by general consent
  5. 1. (Gr. Antiq.) Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage. 2. Banishment; exclusion; as, social ostracism. Public envy is as an ostracism, that eclipseth men when they grow too great. Bacon. Sentenced to a perpetual ostracism from the . . . confidence, and honors, and emoluments of his country. A. Hamilton.
  6. Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to ridthe city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.
  7. n:100 n. the act of excluding someone from society by general consent