'proscribe' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of prohibiting someone from doing something, or the act of officially denouncing or condemning something. Example: The government proscribed certain kinds of media for fear that they would increase political dissent.
It refers to a section of the criminal code that proscribes seeking money for non-existent benefits.
Tabloids have stepped up the production of scoops about celebrities to maintain an edge against online rivals like Popbitch and gossip magazines like Heat (Lord Justice Leveson confessed to being a regular reader of neither).One way of strong-arming the press to behave better would be a privacy law like the one operating in France, which proscribes intrusion into the lives of public figures.
He and other Pentecostals pushed for the tabling of an anti-homosexuality bill in the Ugandan parliament, which advocates spying on gays and proscribes imprisonment for sodomy.
The party proscribes entire realms of inquiry at universities.On 10th May the South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong newspaper, reported on a new directive listing seven subjects that Chinese universities should refrain from discussing.
It proscribes acts including killing, inflicting physical or mental harm, forced adoption and eugenics, when done "with intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".
It proscribes all facial coverings, except for reasons of health or safety (such as motor cycle helmets or welding masks).
There are now more legal drugs on sale than were even dreamed of when the first global drug laws were written: the 1961 and 1971 UN drug conventions proscribe just 234.
This was put in place because the alternative – proscribing organisationsthat held seats in the Commons – would have been worse.
Related: Budapest autumn: hollowing out democracy on the edge of Europe Hungary abolished the death penalty – after this was proscribed by the EU charter of fundamental rights – following the collapse of communism in 1989.
The group is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UN because it operates as a front organisation for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group that executed the 2008 attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai.
Usually its nothing fancy: I tend to proscribe an all-body workout using high reps and light weights.
