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UK
/pɹəskɹˈaɪbd/
]
[ US /pɹoʊsˈkɹaɪbd/ ]
[ US /pɹoʊsˈkɹaɪbd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
excluded from use or mention
forbidden fruit
a taboo subject
in our house dancing and playing cards were out
How To Use proscribed In A Sentence
- Showing the insignia of Neutral deities cuts no ice with Thadeus - such gods are little better than the Proscribed Ones.
- Animal societies have proscribed behavior, and if you step outside of it too often or get too uppity you are ostracized.
- Accordingly, he had recourse to the following measures: he knew that Constantius was hated by all the people who held the homoousian faith and had driven them from the churches and had proscribed and exiled their bishops. A Source Book for Ancient Church History
- Convention were proscribed as regicides, when the word Jacobin sent a thrill of horror down every respectable spinal chord, the daughter of The French Revolution A Short History
- Songs of a politically critical character are proscribed.
- Simple circular motion as proscribed by Aristotle did not satisfy the observations.
- Any such engines configured for use in this missile system would also be proscribed.
- Few deputies positively welcomed the purge of national representatives, and a number who had no special links with the proscribed deputies went out of their way to condemn the deed openly in letters to their constituents.
- More than a few will also tell you that you've not truly lived until you've partaken of certain proscribed herbs while the sun sets.
- Before judgment was rendered, the medical faculty proscribed, in a body, Mesmer’s so-called charlatanism, his tub, his conducting wires, and his theory. Ursula