From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Proscription \Pro*scrip"tion\, noun [L. proscriptio: cf. F. proscription.]
1. 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.
2. The state of being proscribed; denunciation; interdiction; prohibition. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a decree that prohibits something [syn: {prohibition}, {ban}]
2: rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone [syn: {banishment}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "proscription": Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, anathema, anathematizing, ban, banishment, blackball, blacklist, blasphemy, boundary, bounds, boycott, boycottage, censure, commination, condemnation, confinement, continence, contraband, conviction, curse, damnation, death sentence, death warrant, denial, denouncement, denunciation, disallowance, discipline, doom, embargo, evil eye, exclusion, excommunication, execration, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, fulmination, guilty verdict, hex, imprecation, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inhibition, injunction, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, judgment, law, limit, limitation, malison, malocchio, moderation, no-no, ostracism, ostracization, preclusion, prescription, prevention, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, qualification, rap, refusal, rejection, repression, restrain, restriction, restrictive covenants, ruling out, sentence, statute, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo, thundering, verdict of guilty, whammy, zoning, zoning laws
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