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To proscribe something is to say, with official power, that it may not exist or may not be done. A government can proscribe a group, a practice, or a book. The tone is formal and legal — closer to “ban by law” than to a parent saying don’t. In history, especially Roman history, to proscribe a person was to put their name on a public list: they lost protection, and others could hunt them. That older human meaning is harsher than “forbid an activity.” In modern English the object is often a thing or an act, not a person, though news writing still sometimes says a group was proscribed. Though actually, students mix this up with , which looks like a twin. is what a doctor does: they tell you what you should take. Proscribe goes the other way: it tells you what you must not do. Both sit on Latin “write,” but the little front piece is different, and the meaning is nearly opposite.
禁止、明文禁止（正式、法律用語）
組成From Middle English proscriben, from Latin prōscrībō, “to proclaim, forbid, banish.” Originally “publish in writing”: prō- + scrībō, “write.”
同家族的字
- proscriptionthe noun from the same Latin verb
- scriptshares Latin scrībō, to write
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
proscribeverb/pɹəˈskɹaɪb/
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To forbid or prohibit.
- The law proscribes driving a car while intoxicated.
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To denounce.
- The word ‘ain't’ is proscribed by many authorities.
- If Joseph Willet, the denounced and proscribed of 'prentices, had happened to be at home when his father's courtly guest presented himself before the Maypole door— [...] he would have contrived, by hook or crook, to dive to the very bottom of Mr. Chester's mystery, and to come at his purpose with as much certainty as though he had been his confidential adviser.
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To banish or exclude.
- Many Roman citizens were proscribed for taking part in rebellions.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。