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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To denounce or condemn.
  2. v. To prohibit; forbid. See Synonyms at forbid.
  3. v. To banish or outlaw (a person).
  4. v. To publish the name of (a person) as outlawed.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To publish the name of, as condemned to death and liable to confiscation of property.
  2. To put out of the protection of the law; banish; outlaw; exile.
  3. To denounce and condemn as dangerous; reject utterly; interdict; prohibit.
  4. Synonyms To doom.
  5. To forbid.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To forbid or prohibit.
  2. v. transitive To denounce.
  3. v. transitive To banish or exclude.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile.
  2. v. To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. command against

Etymologies

  1. Middle English proscriben, from Latin prōscrībere, to put up someone's name as outlawed : prō-, in front; see pro-1 + scrībere, to write; see skrībh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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