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prescribe (pri SKRIGHB) (verb)
1. To provide or write an order for medications or recommendations: Kenneth asked his doctor to prescribe physiotherapy for his sore wrist.
2. To indicate or to dictate regulations that are to be followed: The school principal decided to prescribe new playground rules for the pupils.
2. To indicate or to dictate regulations that are to be followed: The school principal decided to prescribe new playground rules for the pupils.
proscribe (proh SKRIGHB) (verb)
1. To prohibit or to condemn as harmful: The village elders determined to proscribe smoking in the public buildings.
2. To make something illegal or to forbid certain things: The principal said he would proscribe the use of cell phones in school.
3. To publish the name of an individual who is condemned to death or whose property is forfeited to the government: The next edition of the internal newsletter at the prison will proscribe the list of inmates each week.
2. To make something illegal or to forbid certain things: The principal said he would proscribe the use of cell phones in school.
3. To publish the name of an individual who is condemned to death or whose property is forfeited to the government: The next edition of the internal newsletter at the prison will proscribe the list of inmates each week.
When Keith asked the doctor to prescribe pain killers for his injured ankle, he agreed, but said that he would also proscribe strenuous physical activity for at least a month.
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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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“proscribe”
To reject, to condemn, to denounce something as useless or dangerous; to prohibit. (2)
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