Proscription - Wikipedia Proscription (Latin: proscriptio) is, in current usage, a 'decree of condemnation to death or banishment' (Oxford English Dictionary) and can be used in a political context to refer to state-approved murder or banishment
PROSCRIPTION | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary A proscription on indoor smoking was passed by voters last fall The new rules must not violate the constitutional proscription of unreasonable searches and seizures
proscription - Wiktionary, the free dictionary Noun proscription (countable and uncountable, plural proscriptions) A prohibition Synonyms: forbidding, forbode, sanction (history) Decree of condemnation toward one or more persons, especially in the Roman antiquity Synonyms: attaintment, judgement; see also Thesaurus: conviction
PROSCRIPTION Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com The term proscription was first used in ancient Rome for official banishment and other government-sanctioned punishments The word comes from the Latin proscribere, "publish in writing," and historically proscriptions involved publishing the names of people considered enemies of the state