单词 | proscription |
释义 | proscriptionn. 1. The action of proscribing a person, by declaring him or her to be condemned to death and confiscation of property; an instance of this; the condition or fact of being proscribed or outlawed; banishment, exile, outlawry. Also figurative. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > outlawry > [noun] > action of declaring an outlaw proscriptiona1387 outlawrya1400 prescription?a1450 horn1491 horning1536 proclamation1561 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 443 (MED) For in þat tyme [in] Engelond was robberie under kyng William þe Rede, and proscripciouns and excilinges and takynge into [the] kynges hond. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i. pr. iv. 267 I am remuwed fro the cite of Rome almest fyve hundred thowsand paas; I am withoute deffense dampnyd to proscripcion and to the deth for the studie and bountes that I have doon to the senat. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 4483 (MED) O cruel Mars, þat..hast also in þi subieccioun Exile, werre, cheynes, and presoun, Proscripcioun and captiuite. c1450 J. Lydgate Ballade Our Lady (Sloane) 58 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 257 (MED) O closid gardeyn, al void of weedes wicke..Of alle cristen protectrix and tutele, Retour of exilid put in proscrypcyoun. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. B.viij The tyme of Sylla, whan he made the vniuersall proscription agaynste the Marians. c1600 J. Dymmok Treat. Ireland (1842) 14 This cuntry..was very well quieted by a proscription of the O'Connors made by the erle of Kildare. 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love i. i. sig. B2v I doubt not but I shall really redeeme the minutes I haue lost by their so long and ouer-nice proscription of my Deity, from their court. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 105 Neither Chains nor Transportation, Proscription, Sale, nor Confiscation. 1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) Ded. p. xvi To hang up the Tables of Proscription, without the Power of sending Centurions to cut off every Head, that wears a Face dislik'd at Court, would be Madness in a Prince. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xv. 458 The Nazarenes had only one way left to escape the common proscription. 1851 Frederick Douglass' Paper (Rochester, N.Y.) (Electronic text) 26 June A system or law of the State for the general education of all classes of children, without distinction or proscription. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ix. §8. 675 William..was resolved that no bloodshed or proscription should follow the revolution. 1931 J. Gavorse Suetonius' Lives Twelve Caesars i. 8 He treated as assassins even those who, in the late proscription, had received money from the pubic treasury for bringing in the heads of Roman citizens. 1961 Hist. Jrnl. 4 122 A wholesale proscription of known opponents was accompanied by bribery of possibly wavering supporters on a very considerable scale. 2000 R. A. Bauman Human Rights Anc. Rome ix. 113 With the implements of state terrorism in place, Sulla went ahead with the proscriptions. He posted up the names of people who were liable to be killed with impunity. 2. a. Prohibition or interdiction by authority; exclusion or rejection by public order; the state of being so excluded; an instance of this. Also more generally: the action or an act of authoritatively forbidding or discountenancing something; prohibition; official disapprobation. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] > proscription or interdiction inhibition1387 interdiction1579 proscription1620 1620 R. Brathwait Ess. Fiue Senses ii. 14 I found many things in their owne nature worthily approued, by the Prescription of time, and Proscription of conscience to be strangely depraued. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 284 The saving of their rights is the clear proscription of their rights. 1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 62 A proscription published by a Colony against the Mother-country. 1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul ii. v. 215 Drums, trumpets, hautboys, and flutes are exempted from this proscription, as being manly and warlike. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. vii. 146 Iconoclasm..was a mere negative doctrine, a proscription of those sentiments which had full possession of the popular mind. a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) i. v. 42 Bereavement, disappointment, the fear of novel visitations, the decay or proscription of ancient pleasures, easily incline him [sc. the Polynesian] to be sad. 1928 Eng. Jrnl. 17 659 We teach it [sc. the etiquette of language behaviour] as we teach any other etiquette, by means of prescriptions and proscriptions, of rules and drills. 1961 N. Postman Television & Teaching of Eng. i. iv. 56 [They] lived romantic, violent, and episodic lives, lives which were largely free from the customary restraints and proscriptions imposed by society. 1992 Matrix Fall 8/2 Sellar's works were subjected to ecclesiastical proscription. b. Chiefly U.S. Exclusion from or rejection by society; the state or fact of being so excluded. ΚΠ 1819 Times 4 Mar. 3/1 He knew that by honestly expressing his opinion, he was entering his name upon the list not only of public but social proscription. 1824 Adams Centinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 1 Dec. Do the men who have rendered such services to their country..—do such men deserve nothing but contumely and proscription from a people whom they saved, first from a powerful enemy, and next from anarchy? 1854 Kenosha (Wisconsin) Tribune 2 Nov. We..are as much opposed to the proscription of one class as another. 1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ II. liii. 346 A land..afflicted by social proscription. 1942 A. Locke & B. J. Stern When Peoples Meet iv. xi. 468 Such is typical of both the Jewish and the Negro minorities, both of them subject to intense and sustained cultural proscription and prejudice. 2002 G. D. Crane Race, Citizenship, & Law Amer. Lit. i. 15 The cosmopolitan cast of Douglass's thoughts is not particularly surprising given the considerable relief from racial proscription he had experienced in Britain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1387 |
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