PROSCRIPTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proscription mean? 

• PROSCRIPTION (noun)
  The noun PROSCRIPTION has 2 senses:

1. a decree that prohibits something

2. rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone

  Familiarity information: PROSCRIPTION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROSCRIPTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A decree that prohibits something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

ban; prohibition; proscription

Hypernyms ("proscription" is a kind of...):

decree; edict; fiat; order; rescript (a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "proscription"):

banning-order (an order that bans something)

cease and desist order; enjoining; enjoinment; injunction ((law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity)

interdict; interdiction (a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity)

Derivation:

proscribe (command against)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

banishment; proscription

Hypernyms ("proscription" is a kind of...):

rejection (the act of rejecting something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "proscription"):

anathematisation; anathematization (the formal act of pronouncing (someone or something) accursed)

disbarment (the act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law)

ejection; exclusion; expulsion; riddance (the act of forcing out someone or something)

deportation; exile; expatriation; transportation (the act of expelling a person from their native land)

excision; excommunication (the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society)

relegation (mild banishment; consignment to an inferior position)

rustication (banishment into the country)

Derivation:

proscribe (command against)