Rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone

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.