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[ UK /pɹəskɹˈa‍ɪb/ ]
[ US /pɹoʊsˈkɹaɪb/ ]
VERB
  1. command against
    I forbid you to call me late at night
    Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store
    Dad nixed our plans

How To Use proscribe In A Sentence

  • But the Law of Moses under which the Jews, as evidenced by their circumcision, are supposed to live under is very rigid and proscribes up to death for many transgressions. The Volokh Conspiracy » Ann Coulter, Christian Chauvinist:
  • Newspapers and television viewing are largely proscribed and inmates are often unable to contact their families for months.
  • If we were proscribed we would go underground, and anything that's underground surfaces.
  • For example, battery under the common law was a general intent crime requiring the perp's awareness that he is acting in a proscribed manner.
  • In some cultures surgery is proscribed.
  • International criminal law is a body of international rules designed both to proscribe international crimes and to impose upon States the obligation to prosecute and punish at least some of those crimes.
  • In addition to being a proscribed ethnic group by the government, the Chinese were predominantly city-dwellers, making them vulnerable to the Khmer Rouge's revolutionary ruralism. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • Today, the work of Christian teachers should include clear focus on who God is, because tomorrow depends very much on the Church of God today we proscribe the concept.
  • The ‘Goldwater’ rule already proscribes specific comments about public figures or others who have not actually been evaluated.
  • These changes open the doors to many previously proscribed activities, including logging, road-building, oil drilling and even polluting.
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