Proscribe

Definition: Proscribe

Proscribe

Verb

1. Command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "proscribe" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Note: Proscribe \Pro*scribe"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Proscribed; present participle verb or noun Proscribing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Proscribe

Condemnation

Verb: condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; nonsuit.

Malediction

Execrate, beshrew, scold; anathematize; (censure); bold up to execration, denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate, thunder against; threaten.

Prohibition

Verb: prohibit, inhibit; forbid, put one's veto upon, disallow, enjoin, ban, outlaw, taboo, proscribe, estop; bar; debar; (hinder), forefend.

Keep in, keep within bounds; restrain; cohibit, withhold, limit, circumscribe, clip the wings of, restrict; interdict, taboo; put under an interdiction, place under an interdiction; put under the ban, place under the ban; proscribe; exclude, shut out; shut the door, bolt the door, show the door; warn off; dash the cup from one's lips; forbid the banns.

Seclusion Exclusion

Cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge; look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon; repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round.

Crosswords: Proscribe

The State may define the term "physician" to mean only a physician currently licensed by the State, and may proscribe any abortion by a person who is not a physician as so defined. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Mauritius

Following public opposition, the Government did not implement the 2000 Public Security Act, which would allow the Commissioner of Police to proscribe any organization believed to promote or engage in terrorism. (references)

Swaziland

On June 22, the Government implemented Decree No. 2, which contained a provision allowing the Minister for Information and Public Service to proscribe any magazine, book, newspaper, or excerpt without furnishing any reasons or jurisdictional facts. (references)

Economic History

Panama

Despite 1983 constitutional amendments, which appeared to proscribe a political role for the military, the Panama Defense Forces (PDF), as they were then known, continued to dominate Panamanian political life behind a facade of civilian government. (references)

Worker Rights

Belize

Although the law does not specifically prohibit trafficking in persons, it does proscribe procurement for the purpose of prostitution. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

quaj të dënueshëm, nxjerr jashtë ligjit (outlaw, proclaim), ndaloj (arrest, balk, ban, bar, baulk, block, break down, cease, challenge, close down, come to a halt, debar, detain, disallow, disqualify, enjoin, estop, forbid, halt, impede, inhibit, interdict, negative, nip, prevent, prohibit, pull up, stall, stop, tackle, withhold), dënoj (be exiled, castigate, censure, condemn, criminate, damn, declaim, delate, denounce, deprecate, discipline, doom, penalize, punish, rap, reprehend, sentence, trounce), dëboj (banish, cast out, deport, evict, excommunicate, exile, expel, hoot, laugh off, rase, raze, rout, send off, send packing, throw out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نفى (banish, be exiled, deny, disclaim, exile, expatriate, gainsay, relegate, transport), ‏حرمه من حماية القانون, ‏حرم (abridge, ban, be bereaved, be forbidden, bereave, contraband, debar, deny, deprive, disable, dispossess, divest, excommunicate, forbade, forbid, geld, interdict, inviolable, outlaw, prohibit, restrain, rob, sacred, sanctuary, starve, suppress, wife), ‏أبعد من البلاد. (various references)

Bulgarian 

отричам (abnegate, denounce, disclaim, gainsay, negate, negative, renounce, repudiate, retract, testify against), отхвърлям (abnegate, avoid, cast away, cast down, challenge, decline, demur, deny, disallow, disclaim, dismiss, except, exclude, fling away, ignore, kiss off, negative, override, rebuff, rebut, refuse, refute, renounce, repudiate, scout, set aside, throw back, throw down, throw off, throw out, toss away, toss over, vote down, wash out, wave aside), обявявам вън от законите, заточавам (exile, relegate), забранявам (ban, black out, disallow, enjoin, estop, forbid, inhibit, interdict, prohibit, provide against, suppress, veto). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�逐 (Ostracize, Ostracized, Ostracizing, Proscribed, Proscribing). (various references)

Czech

prohlásit za psance, zavrhnout (cast away, cast off, discard, reject, reprobate, repudiate, throw over), vypovìdìt (annul, banish, declare, denounce, deport, discontinue, exile, expel, outlaw, relegate, terminate, warn, warn off). (various references)

Farsi 

ممنوع ساختن (Outlaw), نهی کردن (Interdict), تحریم کردن (Ban, Blackball, Boycott, Prohibit), تبعیدکردن (Abandon, Deport, Displace, Exile), بازداشتن از, بددانستن (Deprecate, Irk, Loathe, Mislike). (various references)

Finnish

julistaa lainsuojattomaksi (outlaw). (various references)

French

proscrire. (various references)

German

verbieten (ban, debar, forbad, forbid, forbidden, interdict, outlaw, prohibit, to forbid (forbad[e], to interdict). (various references)

Greek 

κηρύσσω έκνομον, προγράφω (blacklist, outlaw). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"וציא מחוץ לחוק (outlaw). (various references)

Hungarian

törvényen kívül helyez (to outlaw, to proscribe), számûz (banish, deport, exile, ostracize, outlaw, relegate), megtilt (enjoin, forbade, forbid, forbidden, inhibit, prohibit, to forbid, to interdict, to proscribe, to veto). (various references)

Indonesian

mengharamkan (abjure, abstain from, forbid, prohibit). (various references)

Italian

proscrivere (outlaw). (various references)

Manx

tarmestey (ban, block, blocking, check, checkmate; stonewaller; discouragement, chip in, cross, cross annoy, debar, encroachment, foil, frustrate, frustration, interdict, interdiction, interference, proscription, taboo, thwart), meelowal (disallow, disallowance, illegal, prohibit, proscription). (various references)

Pig Latin

oscribepray

Portuguese

proscrever (ostracize, outlaw, proclaim, taboo), proibir (ban, bar, bar from, censor, deny, disallow, enjoin, forbade, forbid, forbidding, interdict, outlaw, proclaim, prohibit, red-pencil, taboo), interdizer (forbid, interdict, taboo), expulsar (cast out, deport, disbar, dislodge, eject, eliminate, evict, expel, extrude, kick out, oust, out, repel, scavenge, scour, turn out), exilar (banish, deport, exile, expatriate, go into exile, relegate), banir (ban, banish, cast out, deport, do away with, exile, expatriate, get rid of, ostracize, outlaw, relegate, remove, rusticate, sequester, taboo). (various references)

Romanian

pune în afara legii (attaint), proscrie (cast off, ostracize, outlaw), interzice (ban, bar, disallow, enjoin, forbid, interdict, proclaim, prohibit, taboo, veto), exila (banish, exile, expel, relegate, withdraw). (various references)

Russian 

осудить и запретить, оглашать (delate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prognati (banishment, exile, ostracize), zabraniti (ban, bar, enjoin, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, rule out, suppress), isključiti (deal out, debar, declutch, disconnect, except, exclude, preclude, rule out, shut out, turn off, unplug). (various references)

Spanish

proscribir (banish, outlaw). (various references)

Swedish

proskribera, förbjuda (ban, bar, enjoin, forbid, inhibit, interdict, prohibit, suppress). (various references)

Turkish

yasal haklardan mahrum etmek (outlaw), yasaklamak (ban, bar, call off, clamp the lid on smth., debar, embargo, enjoin, forbid, imprison, inhibit, interdict, outlaw, prohibit, put a ban on, put one's foot down, put the lid on smth., put under a ban, put under a taboo, taboo, tabu), yasak etmek (clamp the lid on smth., prohibit, put the lid on smth., put under a ban), sürgüne yollamak. (various references)

Ukrainian

виганяти (banish, boo, boot out, chase, dislodge, dispossess, eject, evict, exclude, exile, expel, oust, put out of, send off, throw out, thrust out, turn out), осуджувати і забороняти. (various references)

proscribere, proscripta, proscriptus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "proscribe": proscribed, proscriber, proscribers, proscribes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Proscribe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: proscibe, Prosorba, prosribe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: cirrose, copiers, corbies, corries, crisper, crosier, orrices, pricers, probers, prosier, scriber.

-3 letters: biceps, borers, briers, copers, copier, copies, corbie, corers, corpse, corrie, cosier, criers, cripes, crores, orbier, orrice, poiser, precis, pricer, prices, priers, priors, prober, probes, proser, rebops, repros, resorb, ribose, ricers, ropers, ropier, rosier, scorer, scribe, sorbic, spicer, sprier.

-4 letters: bices, biers.

+1 letter: proscribed, proscriber, proscribes.

+2 letters: microprobes, proscribers.

+4 letters: cerebrospinal, overprescribe, procarbazines, reproducibles.

+5 letters: bromocriptines, incorruptibles, micropublisher, overprescribed, overprescribes, particleboards.