Taxonomy vs Ostracism - What's the difference?
taxonomy | ostracism |
The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
(taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
(historical) In ancient Athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state.
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, title= *, 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= Temporary exclusion from a community or society.
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and ostracism
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while ostracism is (historical) in ancient athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state.taxonomy
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(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee also
* classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontologyostracism
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(wikipedia ostracism)Noun
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:
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=
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