ostracise /ˈɒstɹəsaɪz/ verb2 •To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.You then most Noble Equivocations and Allusions, whom Rhetorick would Ostracise, seek Revenge for your Banishment; [...] — 1704 •(historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.Republics have been accused of being ungrateful. Aristides was ostracised for being called the Just, and Themistocles banished, after saving his country from desolation. — 1836 formsostracised · ostracising · ostracises