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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proscription \Pro*scrip"tion\, n. [L. proscriptio: cf. F. proscription.]
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The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription.
Every victory by either party had been followed by a sanguinary proscription.
--Macaulay. The state of being proscribed; denunciation; interdiction; prohibition.
--Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "decree of condemnation, outlawry," from Latin proscriptionem (nominative proscriptio) "a public notice (of sale); proscription, outlawry, confiscation," noun of action from past participle stem of proscribere (see proscribe).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A prohibition. 2 (context history English) Decree of condemnation toward one or more persons, especially in the Roman antiquity. 3 The act of proscribing, or its result. 4 A decree or law that prohibits.
WordNet
n. a decree that prohibits something [syn: prohibition, ban]
rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone [syn: banishment]
Wikipedia
Proscription is, in current usage, a "decree of condemnation to death or banishment" ( OED) and can be used in a political context to refer to state-approved murder or banishment. The term originated in Ancient Rome, where it included public identification and official condemnation of declared enemies of the state. It has been used broadly since to describe similar governmental and political actions, with varying degrees of nuance, including the en masse suppression of ideologies and elimination of political rivals or personal enemies. In addition to its recurrences during the various phases of the Roman Republic, it has become a standard term to label:
- the suppression of Royalists after Oliver Cromwell's decisive defeat of Charles II at the Battle of Worcester in 1651 (see image)
- curbing of Western religion in early 18th-century China
- the banning of Highland dress following the Jacobite rising of 1745 in Scotland
- atrocities that occurred during the Reign of Terror (1793-1794) phase of the French Revolution
For example:
- the mass deportations of English and French workers from Russia in mid-19th century, with the onset of the Crimean War
- in the 20th century, such things as the efforts of the Labour Party in England to prevent "Communist entryism" through blacklisting propagandizing persons and organisations
Darren G. Lilleker, 2004, Against the Cold War: The History and Political Traditions of Pro-Sovietism in the British Labour Party, 1945-1989 (Vol. 1 of International Library of Political Studies), London, U.K.: I.B.Tauris, pp. 20f, 45f, 176f, and passim, ISBN 1850434719, see 3, accessed 18 April 2015.
- the broad prohibitions of Jewish cultural institutions and activities in the Soviet Union after the birth of the state of Israel in 1948 and the onset of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
Yaacov Ro’i, 2010, "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Culture," in The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (online), see 4, accessed 18 April 2015.
- the political violence that occurred in Argentina against Peronists after the exile of Juan Perón in 1955
Usage examples of "proscription".
Bishop of Worcester, to get passage to England in time to visit proscription and excommunication upon all the ecclesiastics upon whom Henry depended for the coronation.
In fact, if any one were to draw up a list of probable proscriptions and compare it with those of the 24th of July 1815, there would probably be few names common to both except Labedoyere, Mouton Duvernet, etc.
Retain the dictatorship for a time, strengthen the plebeian element by ruthless proscriptions of patricians and by recruits from the provinces, unite the tribunitial, pontifical, and military powers in the imperator designated by the army, all elements existing in the constitution from an early day, and already developed in the Roman state, and you have the imperial constitution, which retained to the last the senate and consuls, though with less and less practical power.
Among recent activities on the part of the RAF and in which Fred had been closely involved had been an early experiment in aerial proscription, successful within limits but revealing the surprising fact that the slow-moving bombers available to the RAF at the time were vulnerable targets to Afridi and Wazir snipers on the ground.
He gloried in the arbitrary proscription of four thousand seven hundred citizens.
Galileo engaged in a protracted controversy on the priority of discovery and the nature of sunspots with yet another Jesuit priest, Christopher Scheiner, which developed into a bitter personal antagonism and which is thought by many historians of science to have contributed to the house arrest of Galileo, the proscription of his books, and his confession, extracted under threat of torture by the Inquisition, that his previous Copernican writings were heretical and that Earth did not move.
The loyal Caesareans Quintus Cicero and his son had gone on the second proscription list, informed on by a slave who swore that their sentiments had changed, that they now were bent on fleeing the country to join the Liberators.
How dared he have the audacity to say the proscriptions would end on the Kalends of last month-the names are still going up on the rostra every time one of his minions or his relatives covets another luscious slice of Campania or the seashore!
I repeat, that those meetings, in which the governments may have their own creatures, can offer dangers sufficiently serious to warrant the proscriptions of kings or the excommunications of Popes?
Proscription is the work of a bunch of bureaucrats, a lot of nervous nellies, grounders all.
Gnaeus Octavius had legislated to compel some of the proscription profiteers to give back property obtained by violence, force, or intimidation-which of course also meant removing the names of the original owners from the lists of the proscribed.
Yet that, he reflected, was what administration of the proscriptions required-someone absolutely abominable.
The business end of the proscriptions had to be conducted in a positive cloud of respectability-sale of properties, disposal of cash assets, jewelry, furniture, works of art, stocks and shares.
Chrysogonus was not chief administrator of the proscriptions and steward to the Dictator for nothing.
Pompey proved to be more difficult than reconciling Rome to the proscriptions, as Sulla learned the day before he held his triumph.