'Proscription' definitions:
Definition of 'proscription'
(from WordNet)
noun
A decree that prohibits something [syn: prohibition, ban, proscription]
noun
Rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone [syn: banishment, proscription]
Definition of 'Proscription'
From: GCIDE
- Proscription \Pro*scrip"tion\, n. [L. proscriptio: cf. F. proscription.]
- 1. The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription. [1913 Webster]
- Every victory by either party had been followed by a sanguinary proscription. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state of being proscribed; denunciation; interdiction; prohibition. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'proscription'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anathema,
- anathematizing,
- ban,
- banishment,
- blackball,
- blacklist,
- blasphemy,
- boundary,
- bounds,
- boycott,
- boycottage,
- censure,
- commination,
- condemnation,
- confinement,
- continence,
- contraband,
- conviction,
- curse,
- damnation,
- death sentence,
- death warrant,
- denial,
- denouncement,
- denunciation,
- disallowance,
- discipline,
- doom,
- Eighteenth Amendment,
- embargo,
- evil eye,
- exclusion,
- excommunication,
- execration,
- forbiddance,
- forbidden fruit,
- forbidding,
- fulmination,
- guilty verdict,
- hex,
- imprecation,
- index,
- index expurgatorius,
- index librorum prohibitorum,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- interdict,
- interdiction,
- interdictum,
- judgment,
- law,
- limit,
- limitation,
- malison,
- malocchio,
- moderation,
- no-no,
- ostracism,
- ostracization,
- preclusion,
- prescription,
- prevention,
- prohibition,
- Prohibition Party,
- prohibitory injunction,
- qualification,
- rap,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- repression,
- restrain,
- restriction,
- restrictive covenants,
- ruling out,
- sentence,
- statute,
- sumptuary laws,
- suppression,
- taboo,
- thundering,
- verdict of guilty,
- Volstead Act,
- whammy,
- zoning,
- zoning laws