Associations to the word «Proscription»

Wiktionary

PROSCRIPTION, noun. A prohibition.
PROSCRIPTION, noun. (history) Decree of condemnation toward one or more persons, especially in the Roman antiquity.
PROSCRIPTION, noun. The act of proscribing, or its result.
PROSCRIPTION, noun. A decree or law that prohibits.

Dictionary definition

PROSCRIPTION, noun. A decree that prohibits something.
PROSCRIPTION, noun. Rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats