proscribe Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb command against
    prohibit; forbid; disallow; veto; nix; interdict.
    • I forbid you to call me late at night
    • Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store
    • Dad nixed our plans

WordNet

Pro*scribe" transitive verb
Etymology
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.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Proscribed ; present participle & verbal noun Proscribing
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913