|Flashcards: Latin Derivatives| 1) to prohibit; to interdict; 2)
to put outside the protection of the law; to banish, exile. One
expects a dictator to proscribe the use of shortwave radios,
lest the populace become aware of their miserable condition vis-
à-vis that of a free people. Related English words: proscription
(a proscribing or being proscribed; a prohibition), proscriptive
(proscribing) Latin root words: proscribo, proscribere,
proscripsi, proscriptus - to make known; to advertise; to
confiscate; to outlaw; scribo, scribere, scripsi, scriptus - to
write; proscriptio, proscriptionis, f. - advertisement;
proscription