{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