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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.

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."
To condemn, to prohibit, or to outlaw.
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To condemn, to prohibit, or to outlaw.
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To reject, to condemn, to denounce something as useless or dangerous; to prohibit. (2)