Difference between Ostracize and Banish

OSTRACIZE vs BANISH: VERB

Expel from a community or group
To exclude (a person) from society or from a community, by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to talk to or associate with; to shun.
Avoid speaking to or dealing with

To banish from society, by a general consent; to exclude from social, political, or private favor; to exclude from conversation or friendship; to shun. A person may be ostracized by a formal vote or by a widespread but informal agreement.
To banish by ostracism, as in ancient Greece.
To exclude from a group or society.
To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.

To force to leave a country or place by official decree; exile.
To drive away; expel.
To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.
To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of.
To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.

Also spelled ostracise.
Hence To banish from society; put under the ban; exclude from public or private favor.
To exile by ostracism; banish by popular vote, as persons dreaded for their influence or power were banished by the ancient Athenians. See ostracism, 1.

Synonyms Banish, Exile, Expel, expatriate, put away, are all used of removal by physical or moral compulsion; they all have a figurative as well as a literal use. To banish is, literally, to put out of a community or country by ban or civil interdict, and indicates a complete removal out of sight, perhaps to a distance. To exile is simply to cause to leave one's place or country, and is often used reflexively; it emphasizes the idea of leaving home, while banish emphasizes rather that of being forced by some authority to leave it: as, the bitterness of exile; banished to Siberia. Expel, literally, to drive out, means primarily to cast out forcibly and violently, and secondarily with disgrace: as, to expel from the chamber, or from college; he was expelled the country.
To send or drive away; expel; dismiss: with a person or thing as object: as, to banish sorrow; to banish an obnoxious person from one's presence or thoughts.
To condemn to exile by political or judicial authority; expel from or relegate to a country or a place, either permanently or for a time: often with objectives of both person and place: as, he was banished the kingdom; Ovid was banished to Tomi.
To outlaw; put under ban.

Denigrate, Belittle, Humiliate, Alienate, Persecute, Demonize, Vilify, Stigmatize, Marginalize, Cast out, Ban, Banish, Shun, Blackball, Ostracise

Expel, Abolish, Allay, Consign, Remove, Eliminate, Dispel, Eradicate, Cast out, Bar, Ban, Ostracize, Blackball, Shun, Relegate

Castigate, Demean, Excommunicate, Denigrate, Belittle, Humiliate, Alienate, Persecute, Demonize, Vilify, Marginalize, Ban, Banish, Blackball, Ostracise

Delete, Eliminating, Outlaw, Dissipate, Allay, Consign, Remove, Eliminate, Dispel, Eradicate, Bar, Ban, Ostracize, Blackball, Relegate

If the violations were somewhat serious, people tended to ostracize the offenders without explanation.
Getting to the right place, embargo, prohibit, ostracise, ostracize and blackball were to Shut!
Kassandra was tasked by Perikles to influence a vote to ostracize the philosopher Anaxagoras.
Anyone not following their exact dogmatic interpretation of oppression issues gets labeled and they try to ostracize them.
In other places, as here, it seems to mean to ban or ostracize.
Stand up for your fellow musician OR ostracize the musicians who you see doing this regularly.
Every effort shall be made not to embarrass or ostracize the player.
Or should it pattern after the fathers and virtually ostracize them?
Misinformed or uninformed people may shun and ostracize such carriers.
Do you ostracize one or hospitalize the entire class?

All you do is smile, and banish night.
Banish any complacency in our hearts and minds.
Banish from their hearts whatever might endanger peace.
Paul shook his head to banish that memory.
You might play cards that Banish themselves after use, or your opponent may use various effects that Banish your cards in play.
If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes.
You can now banish unaware enemies and they remain unaware unless they see you once they come out of their Banish.
Or banish me and then throw me in a dungeon in the place that you banish me to?
Banish Deck Help with Toon Banish Maju Deck.
Banish is a very handy Crowd Control spell that can be used to banish Demons and Elementals.