Usually means: Officially forbidding or outlawing something.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word proscribing:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. proscribing: Merriam-Webster
  2. proscribing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. proscribing: Vocabulary.com
  4. proscribing: Wordnik
  5. proscribing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. proscribing: Wiktionary
  7. proscribing: Dictionary.com
  8. proscribing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Proscribing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Proscribing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. proscribing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. proscribing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. proscribing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. proscribing: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. proscribing: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proscribing: Medical dictionary

(Note: See proscribe as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (proscribe)

verb:  (transitive) To forbid or prohibit.
verb:  (transitive) To denounce.
verb:  (transitive) To banish or exclude.
▸ Also see proscribe


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