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Ostracism vs Expel - What's the difference?

ostracism | expel |

As a noun ostracism

is (historical) in ancient athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state.

As a verb expel is

to eject or erupt.

ostracism

English

(wikipedia ostracism)

Noun

  • (historical) In ancient Athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1579, year_published=1898, author=(Thomas North), by=(Plutarch)
    • , title= Plutarch's Lives , section=Themistocles, volume=2, page=35 , passage= For this manner of banishment for a time, called ostracismos , was no punishment for any fault committed, but a mitigation and taking away of the envy of the people, which delighted to pluck down their stomacks that too much seemed to exceed in greatness:
  • * {{quote-book, year=1588, year_published=1886, author=
    • , title= The life and complete works in prose and verse of Robert Greene , chapter=Perimedes the Blacke-Smith, editor=(Alexander Balloch Grosart), volume=7, page=19 , passage=
  • *, II.32:
  • *:Witnesse the Ostracisme'' amongst the Athenians, and the ''Petalisme among the Siracusans.
  • (figuratively) Banishment by some general consent.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1602—3, year_published=1994, author=(Lady Arbella Stuart)
    • , title= The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart , publisher=Oxford University Press, location=New York, editor=Sara Jayne Steen, page=171 , passage=If I have deserved the land should spue me out, I will feed my selfe with the idle and windy conceite of an Ostracisme , and my unregarded poore selfe shall be all the richesse and commpany I crave to transport and if a Princes word
  • Temporary exclusion from a community or society.

    • Synonyms

    * (exclusion) ostracization, shunning

    Derived terms

    * ostracize * ostracise

    See also

    * send to Coventry

    expel

    English

    Verb

  • To eject or erupt.
  • (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
  • * , II.xi:
    • But to the ground the idle quarrell fell: / Then he another and another did expell .
  • To remove from membership.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 14, author=Angelique Chrisafis
    • , title=Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism, work=Guardian citation , page=, passage=She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.}}
  • To deport.

    • Synonyms

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), turf out

    Antonyms

    * impel

    Related terms

    * expulsion