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proscribe pro·scribed pro·scrib·ing [Latin proscribere to publish, proscribe, from pro- before + scribere to write] : to condemn or forbid as harmful or unlawful ...
Proscribe
To doom to destruction to put out of the protection of law to outlaw to exile as Sylla and Marius proscribed each others adherents...
Proscriber
One who or that which proscribes denounces or prohibits...
proscription
proscription 1 : the act of proscribing : the state of being proscribed 2 : an imposed restraint or restriction pro·scrip·tive [-skrip-tiv] adj pro·scrip·tive·ly adv ...
piracy
piracy pl: -cies 1 : an act of robbery esp. on the high seas ;specif : an illegal act of violence, detention, or plunder committed for private ends by crew or passengers of a private ship or aircraft against another ship or aircraft on the high seas or in a place outside the jurisdiction of any state see also aircraft piracy Article I of the Constitution in the back matter 2 a : the unauthorized copying, distribution, or use of another's production (as a film) esp. in infringement of a copyright [software ] b : the unauthorized use, interception, or receipt of encoded communications (as satellite cable programming) esp. to avoid paying fees for use [the statute's purpose is to proscribe the of programming signals "United States v. Harrell, 983 F.2d 36 (1993)"] 3 : the crime of committing piracy ...
vague
vague : characterized by such a lack of precision that a person of ordinary intelligence would have to guess if particular conduct is being proscribed : characterized by a failure to describe forbidden conduct in terms sufficient to provide fair warning [an unconstitutionally law] see also void-for-vagueness doctrine compare overbroad vague·ly adv vague·ness n ...
Proscription
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...
Proscriptionist
One who proscribes...
Proscriptive
Of or pertaining to proscription consisting in or of the nature of proscription proscribing...
Abandun, or Abandum
Abandun, or Abandum, anything sequestered, proscribed, or abandoned. Abandon, i.e., in bannum res missa, a thing banned or denounced as forfeited or lost, whence to abandon, desert, or forsake, as lost and gone, Cowel. Pasquier thinks it a coalition of a ban donner, to give up to a proscription, in which sense it signifies the band of the empire. Ban in the old dialect, signifies a curse; and co abandon, if considered as compounded of French and Saxon, is exactly equivalent to diris devovere. Consult Du Cange....
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