Defn: In Japan, under the feudal system, a samurai who had renounced his clan or who had been discharged or ostracized and had become a wanderer without a lord; an outcast; an outlaw.
What's the use of being an ostracized officer in the service?
If I am to go on into the Army, and be an ostracized officer, I should be of no value to myself or to the service.
Indeed, he has been ostracized in Japan for hundreds of years, and even modernization and imperial edict have changed his status but little.
Among his people, the white folk, though he was not ostracized for having taken a native wife (for it is common enough), still it did lower one in the social scale.
Far East, is like the Greek about to be ostracized by the community in the agora.
It is incredible that a man should be socially ostracized for comparatively minor offenses, yet be rotten with immorality and be received into the best homes.
But, if a woman makes the least false step in this direction, she is not only ostracized but treated with the utmost contempt, while the man who was the chief sinner in causing a woman's downfall, society will pardon.
The first person unconnected with the tyrants who wasostracized was Xanthippus son of Ariphron.
Let that Negro individual or body be ostracized that does not subscribe to this doctrine, or fails to live in accord therewith.
Practically I am ostracized here by the class to which you belong.
Miss Bodine, you would not be ostracizedat the North.
Gold and Green eleven and Coach Corridan, as eloquent a speech as that blithesome youth, two weeks before, had made in defense of the condemned and ostracized Thor!
He divined that his increasing loneliness, and the sure slow decline of his health, and the heartless intolerance of the same class that had ostracized her were added burdens to Mel Iden's faithful heart.
He had driven Mel from his mind by bitter reflection on the conduct of the people who had ostracized her.
The writers of both these books were good and pious Jews, who, because of their learning, were branded and ostracized by many of their co-religionists.
Time was when the Jew who would have exposed a single work printed in any characters but the ancient Hebrew letters would have been ostracized by his co-religionists.
In consequence of this and former misdeeds, he was ostracized from good Jewish society, and finding himself shunned by his former associates he departed from Kief to seek his fortune in a foreign land.
He presented such a hideous aspect that he was virtually ostracized from society The growth had been in progress for twelve years, but during twenty-two months' confinement in Revolutionary prisons the enlargement had been very rapid.
His wounds healed, giving him such a hideous and ghastly appearance that he was virtually ostracized from the sight of his fellows.
Universal tattooing in some of the Eastern countries is used as a means of criminal punishment, the survival of the persecuted individual being immaterial to the torturers, as he would be branded for life and ostracized if he recovered.
The gruesome spectacle he presented ostracized him from the pleasures of friendship and society, and sometimes interfered with his travels.
Thus the vote merely expressed political preference, the ostracized person being simply the defeated candidate for popular favor.
The people then, in a freak, ostracized a man whom all admitted to be the meanest man in Athens.
It is related that while the vote that ostracized him was being taken in the popular assembly, an illiterate peasant, who was a stranger to Aristides, asked him to write the name of Aristides upon his tablet.
The Jewess, hitherto despised and ostracized by society, has suddenly become a legitimate princess; she has now the power to avenge all sneers, all derision, all contempt she has had to undergo.
The gods have failed to protect, the tribe has proved itself vile and cruel, the city ostracized one's best and truest friends, the god-king made a beast of himself.
Jurors in the South have been heard to admit that they would be socially ostracized if they brought in a verdict upon colored testimony alone, in opposition to white testimony.
This poor young mulatto is completely ostracized not only by West Point society, but most thoroughly by the corps of cadets itself.
This cadet and several others were asked whether Minnie, if admitted, would also be ostracized socially.
The feeling of ostracism is so strong that a white boy who dared to recognize a colored cadet would be himself ostracizedby the other white cubs, even of radical extraction.
For four long years Cadet Flipper has led an isolated life at the Point--without one social companion, being absolutely ostracized by his white classmates.
One day a cadet came to Jimmy and said he would befriend him if he dared to, 'but you know I would be ostracized if I should speak to you.
In their anger, they forgot all the good he had done them, and, assembling in the market place, they ostracized him.
The Athenians therefore rose up against him in anger, ostracized him, and drove him out of the country to end his life in exile.
The lady hesitated quite awhile, thinking it would be too great a sacrifice to be socially ostracized by her own race.
By teaching in this family she would be socially ostracizedby the white people of the country, and that hers would be a life of seclusion.
Harden concludes by saying that an ostracized Lichnowsky would become a power; but the Prussian Diet has no sense of humor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ostracized" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
