proscribe
verb (used with object)
to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
had proscribed
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past perfectof proscribe.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Norwegian regulators had proscribed bank dividends due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but those restrictions have since been lifted.
From Reuters ● Oct. 21, 2021
Wrapped in a dressing gown and basking in the sun at the Westchester Country Club near White Plains, N. Y.. Oilman Doherty banged the table when he heard Kansas had proscribed his stock.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is remarkable that the Anglo-Saxon laws had proscribed this as idolatrous.
From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by George Barton Cutten
Christianity would not give them all the difference from Romanism that they wanted,—that the most ardent among them wanted: the Romans were Christians too;—but there was that other ancient thing which the Romans had proscribed.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
On her first appearance at court, proud of her youth, her beauty, and her brilliant complexion, she had proscribed rouge and patches, saying that life was not a masked ball.
From International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various
