Word Meanings - OSTRACIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens. Grote. 2. To banish from society; to put under the ban; to cast out from social, political, or private favor; as, he was ostracized by his former friends. Marvell.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OSTRACIZE)

• Proscribe
• Denounce
• condemn
• reject
• interdict
• ostracize
• disallow
• prohibit
• forbid

Related words: (words related to OSTRACIZE)

• DENOUNCE
  denunciare; de- + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce, report, nuntius a 1. To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim . Denouncing wrath to come. Milton. I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Deut. xxx.
• INTERDICT
  To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual. An archbishop may not only excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his vicar general may do the same. Ayliffe. (more info)
• CONDEMNER
  One who condemns or censures.
• REJECTER
  One who rejects.
• FORBIDDANCE
  The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing. ow hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance. Milton.
• DISALLOWABLE
  Not allowable; not to be suffered. Raleigh. -- Dis`al*low"a*ble*ness, n.
• REJECT
  re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. 1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson . Reject me not from among
• CONDEMNED
  1. Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation. 2. Used for condemned persons. Richard Savage . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs
• FORBIDDENLY
  In a forbidden or unlawful manner. Shak.
• PROHIBITER
  One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.
• INTERDICTION
  The act of interdicting; prohibition; prohibiting decree; curse; interdict. The truest issue of thy throne By his own interdiction stands accurst. Shak.
• REJECTANEOUS
  Not chosen orr received; rejected. "Profane, rejectaneous, and reprobate people." Barrow.
• REJECTION
  Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.
• REJECTABLE
  Capable of being, or that ought to be, rejected.
• PROHIBITORY
  Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price. Prohibitory index. See under Index.
• PROHIBITIVE
  That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive.
• PROHIBITION
  1. The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict. The law of God, in the ten commandments, consists mostly of prohibitions. Tillotson. 2. Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors
• FORBIDDING
  Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air. Syn. -- Disagreeable; unpleasant; displeasing; offensive;
• DENOUNCER
  One who denounces, or declares, as a menace. Here comes the sad denouncer of my fate. Dryden.
• INTERDICTIVE
  Having the power to prohibit; as, an interdictive sentence. Milton.
• PRECONDEMN
  To condemn beforehand. -- Pre*con`dem*na"tion, n.
• IRREJECTABLE
  That can not be rejected; irresistible. Boyle.
• SELF-CONDEMNATION
  Condemnation of one's self by one's own judgment.