proscribedadj.n.

1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements xlii. 425 Hee that saued an outlaw or proscribed person in his house..was himselfe for recompence of his courtesie and humanity, proscribed and sold.

1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Dialogicall Disc. Spirits & Diuels To Rdr. sig. a3^v It shall be their best, either humbly to submit themselues to her Maiestie, or all ioyntly togither (with the proscribed Apollonits before Apollo his golden tables)..to bewaile the irrecouerable subuersion.

1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 8 As one that hauing beene somtimes an Enimie to the whole State, and a Proscribed person.

1689 T. Shadwell Bury-Fair 11 As the proscribed emperor was by his perfumes betrayd.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxv. 491 They easily consented to support the hereditary claim of his proscribed kinsman.

1821 Ld. Byron Let. 30 July (1978) VIII. 162 I am so busy here about these poor proscribed exiles..and with trying to get some of them recalled.

1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xxiii. 227 I had a fair chance to see some of the inner workings of a Highland clan; and this with a proscribed, fugitive chief.

1928 J. Brown & F. M. Harrison John Bunyan 4 If an excommunicated person ventured to appear..the minister was compelled to call public attention to his presence, and..stop the service till the proscribed person had left the building.

1991 Hist. Workshop Spring 97 The illicit hedge schools where impoverished scholars or proscribed priests taught Gaelic.

1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 118 In the same Key with Monkeys Jiggs, Or Dirges of Proscribed Piggs.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxv. 498 Young Chrysostom..accidentally found one of the proscribed books.

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. vii. 447 Tolerance..of that proscribed worship was equally abhorrent to the prelatist and the puritan.

1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 66 A well~known favourer of the proscribed opinions.

1886 Fortn. Rev. Jan. 146 Serb became a proscribed tongue.

1907 J. S. Tunison Dramatic Traditions Dark Ages i. 9 At the time when Chrysostom was using all the powers of his oratory against every form of popular amusement, four men took the part of the proscribed drama.

1990 V. S. Naipaul India: Million Mutinies (1991) v. 307 This relative had been a nationalist and a journalist; he had edited a proscribed Gandhian journal and had gone to jail in 1942.

1611 B. Jonson Catiline i. sig. B1^v I hid for thee Thy murder of thy Brother,..And writ him in the list of my proscrib'd After thy fact, to saue thy little shame. View more context for this quotation

1684 W. Davies tr. Sylla in J. Dryden tr. Plutarch Lives III. 220 A Freeman..held suspect to have concealed one of the Proscribed,..[was] sentenced to be cast headlong down the Tarpeian Rock.

1832 S. L. Fairfield Last Night of Pompeii 305 Representations of eternal punishments due to those who indulge humanity, by sparing the proscribed, the heretics, namely.

1916 H. Taylor Cicero 118 Lucius Crassus, the representative of a class that piled up enormous riches by buying up cheap the goods of the proscribed.

1995 D. J. Gargola Lands Laws & Gods ix. 180 Sulla presided over sales from his tribunal, while Dio..held that the Triumvirs sold property of the proscribed in the same way.