Pro·scribe v. t. [imp. & p. p. Proscribed p. pr. & vb. n. Proscribing.]
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.
Robert Vere, Earl of Oxford, . . . was banished the realm, and proscribed. --Spenser.
2. To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit; as, the Puritans proscribed theaters.
The Arian doctrines were proscribed and anathematized in the famous Council of Nice. --Waterland.
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proscribed
adj : excluded from use or mention; "forbidden fruit"; "in our
house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo
subject" [syn: forbidden, out(p), prohibited, taboo,
tabu, verboten]