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Definition of Proscribed
1. Adjective. Excluded from use or mention. "A taboo subject"
Definition of Proscribed
1. Verb. (past of proscribe) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Proscribed
1. proscribe [v] - See also: proscribe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proscribed
Literary usage of Proscribed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an by Lorenzo Sabine (1864)
"DAVID, went to Halifax in 1776; proscribed and banished in 1778. Of Pennsylvania.
... A Loyalist of this surname, coppersmith, proscribed in 1778. ..."
2. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an by Lorenzo Sabine (1864)
"JOHN, proscribed and banished in 1778. Of Philadelphia. ... JACOB, proscribed
and banished. Of New York. ISAAC, JOSIAH, and THOMAS, of Westchester County. ..."
3. The American Loyalists: Or, Biographical Sketches of Adherents to the by Lorenzo Sabine (1847)
"He went to Halifax in 1776, and was proscribed and banished in 1778. SERGEANT, JOHN.
Embarked at Boston with the British army for Halifax, 1776. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Disturbed by the anti-religious innovations, the Belgian provinces revolted; 6000
Belgian priests were proscribed. Brittany, Anjou, and Maine again revolted ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... Emperor's abdication was named Minister of State and Peer of France by Louis
XVIII. On the return of Napoleon to Elba, he was proscribed by a special ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"Their zeal was insensibly provoked by the insulting triumph of a proscribed sect ;
and their hopes were revived by the well-grounded confidence that the ..."
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