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/proʊskrˈaɪbd/ Listen

verb

Proscribe v. t. (past & past part. proscribed; pres. part. proscribing)

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."

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."

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Etymology of 'Proscribed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Proscribed" Quotes from Famous Books

... exposed to the heavy penalties of exile and confiscation, if they presumed to preach the doctrine, or to practise the rites of their accursed sects.... Their religious meetings, whether public or secret, by day or by night, in cities or in the country, were equally proscribed by the edicts of Theodosius: and the building or ground, which had been used for that illegal purpose, was forfeited to the imperial domain. It was supposed, that the error of the heretics could proceed only from the obstinate temper ...

— The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. - Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History • Annie Besant

... routing armies and sacking cities and enslaving citizens, when the great fathers of the church were laying the foundation of a Christian state. The ruin of the empire was threatening when Christianity was a proscribed and persecuted faith; it was inevitable when it was grasping the ...

— The Old Roman World • John Lord

... London on May 21st, 1688. He was the only son of his father, a merchant or tradesman, and a Roman Catholic at a time when the members of that church were proscribed by law. The boy was a cripple from his birth, and suffered from great bodily weakness both in youth and manhood. Looking back upon his life in after years he called it a 'long disease.' The elder Pope seems to have retired from business soon after his son's birth, ...

— The Age of Pope - (1700-1744) • John Dennis

... verses; and the ambassador was greatly amazed at knowing nothing of the matter. {23} From amenities towards the authoress, the article passes abruptly to hostile criticism of the book; declares it to be proscribed in Russia as mischievous, and to have precipitated a general war by keeping up English interest in Servian rebellion. It sneers in doubtful taste at the ...

— Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake • Rev. W. Tuckwell

... attentive, intermittent stridor troubled the stillness, originating at some point on the floors below: the proscribed wireless was at work. ...

— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph

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