proscribe

Verb
Synonyms: forbidprohibitinterdictvetodisallownix

WordNet 3.0

Verb (1)

  1. command against“I forbid you to call me late at night”“Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store”“Dad nixed our plans”Synonyms: forbidprohibitinterdictvetodisallownix
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Proscribe \Pro*scribe"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Proscribed; p. pr. & vb. n. Proscribing.] [L. proscribere, proscriptum, to write before, to publish, proscribe; pro before + scribere to write. See Scribe. The sense of this word originated in the Roman practice of writing the names of persons doomed to death, and posting the list in public.]

1.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. [1913 Webster]

Robert Vere, Earl of Oxford, . . . was banished the realm, and proscribed.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]

2.To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit; as, the Puritans proscribed theaters. [1913 Webster]

The Arian doctrines were proscribed and anathematized in the famous Council of Nice.— Waterland.[1913 Webster]
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