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PROSCRIBE

\pɹəskɹˈa͡ɪb], \pɹəskɹˈa‍ɪb], \p_ɹ_ə_s_k_ɹ_ˈaɪ_b]\

Definitions of PROSCRIBE

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language

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To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit; as, the Puritans proscribed theaters.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

To punish by declaring to be outside the protection of the law; banish; prohibit.

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

To publish the names of persons to be punished: to banish: to prohibit: to denounce, as doctrine.
PROSCRIBER.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

PROSCRIBER.
To outlaw; ostracize; denounce; condemn.

1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
By James Champlin Fernald

Proscription.

1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman

To proclaim as having forfeited life and property; to outlaw; to banish; to denounce or to censure and condemn; to interdict.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

To doom to destruction by writing down in a list; to put out of the protection of law; to banish; to outlaw; to prohibit or interdict.

1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.

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