proscribe
proh skrahyb
- v command against
- No two of the assembled experts agreed completely on the relative advantages and risks of the Pill, or in defining the patients for whom they would prescribe or proscribe it.
- Federal Communications Commission regulations proscribe "obscene, indecent or profane language" on the air, but the agency has not prosecuted broadcasters for using Lang's particular colloquialisms.
- And the magnificent swirl of the cosmos simply marks time: it cannot tell us of history, cannot instruct us on what to remember, what to proscribe, what to avoid.