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What does proscribed mean?

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  1. simple past tense and past participle of proscribe
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These changes open the doors to many previously proscribed activities, including logging, road-building, oil drilling and even polluting.
When someone dies, we are proscribed from desecrating the body, which includes invasion of the corpse.
The intentional killing of civilians is proscribed, and so are military actions that show a gross disregard for the lives of innocents.
During the premodern period, meat was proscribed under the tenets of Buddhism.
For example, battery under the common law was a general intent crime requiring the perp's awareness that he is acting in a proscribed manner.
The contravention is complete when the conduct occurs for the proscribed purpose whether or not it achieves its objective.

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