• vt. 剝奪……的公權；禁止

pro-,在前，提前，-scribe,寫，詞源同describe,prescribe.即寫在前面的話，說在前面的丑話，引申詞義禁令，禁止。

proscribe (v.)

early 15c., "write before, prefix," from Latin proscribere "publish in writing" (literally "write in front of"), including senses of "publish as having forfeited one's property, condemn, outlaw before the world," from pro- "before" (see pro-) + scribere "to write" (see script (n.)). Meaning "prohibit as wrong or dangerous" first recorded 1620s.