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proscribe (verb), proscribes; proscribed; proscribing
1. To remove from the protection of the law or rules, to outlaw: Strikes by military personnel have always been and are still proscribed or forbidden.
3. To banish or to expel from a country, community, or group: The illegal alien was proscribed back to his native country.
4. Etymology: from Latin proscribere, "to publish in writing, to condemn" from pro-, "before" + scribere, "to write."
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The school administration proscribed, or did not allow, the use of cell phones in its classes.
2. To reject, to condemn, or to denounce something as useless or dangerous; to prohibit, to interdict: There are more and more public places that are proscribing smoking which is much more healthy for everyone.3. To banish or to expel from a country, community, or group: The illegal alien was proscribed back to his native country.
4. Etymology: from Latin proscribere, "to publish in writing, to condemn" from pro-, "before" + scribere, "to write."
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“proscribes”
To reject, to condemn, to denounce something as useless or dangerous; to prohibit. (2)
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