{f} forbid, prohibit; banish, excommunicate; denounce as dangerous; publicly denounce a convicted criminal
If something is proscribed by people in authority, the existence or the use of that thing is forbidden. In some cultures surgery is proscribed They are proscribed by federal law from owning guns. = prohibit. to officially say that something is not allowed to exist or be done = forbid, prohibit prohibit (proscribere, from scribere )
command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"
To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit; as, the Puritans proscribed theaters
To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents
A sort of hue and cry; so called because among the Romans the names of the persons proscribed were written out, and the tablets bearing their names were fixed up in the public forum, sometimes with the offer of a reward for those who should aid in bringing them before the court If the proscribed did not answer the summons, their goods were confiscated and their persons outlawed In this case the name was engraved on brass or marble, the offence stated, and the tablet placed conspicuously in the market-place
The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription
The proscription of something is the official forbidding of its existence or use. the proscription against any religious service. the proscription of his records. = prohibition