Obs. [ad. Gr. ἐξοστρακισμός, f. ἐξοστρακίζειν: see next.] = OSTRACISM.
[1580. North, Plutarch (1676), 275. For this manner of banishment called Ostracismon, or Exostracismon, was no ordinary punishment for any fault or offence committed.]
1617. T. Lydyat, in Ussher’s Lett. (1686), 58. Themistocles’s expulsion or exostracism from Athens.
1697. Bentley, Ep. Themistocles (1836), 183. The Letters had a worse exostracism than their author. Ibid. (1699), Phal., 89. Banish’d … by way of Exostracism.
