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  1. The deliberate exclusion of an individual, or
  2. group, from society. It was an ancient
  3. Athenian political device to preserve public
  4. order. Votes on pieces of broken pot (Greek
  5. ostrakon) were used to exile unpopular
  6. politicians for ten years.
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