ostracize

[Cacasenno]

ostracize

SYLLABICATION: os·tra·cize
PRONUNCIATION: str-sz
TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: os·tra·cized, os·tra·ciz·ing, os·tra·ciz·es
1. To exclude from a group. See synonyms at blackball. 2. To banish by ostracism, as in ancient Greece.
ETYMOLOGY: Greek ostrakizein, from ostrakon, shell, potsherd (from the potsherds used as ballots in voting for ostracism). See ost- in Appendix I.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

There are many forms of ostracism, not all necessarily involving "democratic" potherds counting procedures and political subject.
A word hopefully bound to become popular now and in the nearest future.
Example:
Would certain finantial bosses be ostracised by their peers as well or are we to expect to see them appare again on the proscenium?

P.S. ostracism or ostracizm?

[Perry]

Ostrichsize - To forcibly put someone's head in the sand.

[Cacasenno]

[Slava]

ostracize

P.S. ostracism or ostracizm?

I do believe it's S, at least here in the StateS.

[Stargzer]

Ostrichsize - To forcibly put someone's head in the sand.

No, that describes an incredibly large egg, large enough to feed scrambled eggs to an entire squad, or maybe make a platoon-sized omlet when you add in some onions, peppers, bacon, and so on.

What we need is a word describing the action of forcibly pulling someone's head OUT of the sand! There's too much cephalosilcosubmersion as it is, not to mention an over-abundance of cranial-rectal inversion.

[Perry]

Too true!