Look up proscription in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Proscription (Latin: proscriptio) is, in current usage, a 'decree of condemnation to death or...

The proscription of Sulla was a reprisal campaign by the Roman proconsul and later dictator, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, to eliminate his enemies in the aftermath...

The Act of Proscription (19 Geo. 2. c. 39), also called the Act of Proscription 1746 or the Disarming the Highlands, etc. Act 1745, was an Act of the Parliament...

The kala pani (lit. black water) represents the proscription of the over reaching seas in Hinduism. According to this prohibition, crossing the seas to...

The ancient Roman civil law concept of proscription, and the status of homo sacer conveyed by proscription may also be similar. Perhaps the oldest of...

Some people do not eat various specific foods and beverages in conformity with various religious, cultural, legal or other societal prohibitions. Many...

Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire began during the reign of Constantine the Great (r. 306–337) in the military colony of Aelia Capitolina...

Act 1746, also known as the Disclothing Act, was part of the Act of Proscription which came into force on 1 August 1746 and made wearing "the Highland...

the legitimacy of Sulla's annulment. Sulla may have put Caesar on the proscription lists, though scholars are mixed. Caesar then went into hiding before...

under the UK's counter terrorism laws on 14 January 2010. Before its proscription it was led by Anjem Choudary. On its website, Islam4UK described itself...

refused government contracts or directorships in any major company. This proscription lasted for forty-five years. George Lyttelton wrote in his Letter to...

The Lanka Sama Samaja Party, often abbreviated as LSSP (literally: Lanka Socialist Party, Sinhala: ලංකා සම සමාජ පක්ෂය, Tamil: லங்கா சமசமாஜக் கட்சி), is...

and 26 of the 1931 constitution had banned the Society of Jesus. This proscription deeply offended many within the conservative fold. The revolution in...

members of a group, related to behaviors and shape decision-making, proscriptive or prescriptive socially acceptable way of living by a group of people...

zones of a single type, where industrial uses were prohibited. The proscriptions included barns, lumber yards, and any industrial land use employing...

500 Spanish women taken into captivity by Mapuche. In retaliation the proscription against enslaving Indians captured in war was lifted by Philip in 1608...

Astrology in Jewish antiquity (Hebrew: מזלות, romanized: mazzalot) is the belief that celestial bodies can influence the affairs of individuals and of...

members were still meeting in secret. It is believed that after its proscription, National Action organised itself in a similar way to the also-banned...

for films. In 1965, the Writers' Guild of Great Britain called for a proscription on the sending of films to South Africa. Over sixty American artists...

conspiring; but Soulouque began to decimate his enemies by confiscation, proscriptions, and executions. The black soldiers began a general massacre in Port-au-Prince...

The history of the modern kilt stretches back to at least the end of the 16th century. The kilt first appeared as the belted plaid or great kilt, a full-length...

Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ viktyʁnjɛ̃ vɛʁɲo]; 31 May 1753 – 31 October 1793) was a French lawyer and statesman, a figure...

continued a four month cessation of hostilities" was also firm in de-proscription of the LTTE by Sri Lanka and India, "We want the government of India...

activities were all proscribed under the Suppression of Communism Act. The proscription meant that the headship was restricted to their homes and adjacent areas...

admonitions against the making of images, even though the extent of that proscription has varied with time, place, and sect or denomination of a given religion...

triumvir was most responsible for the proscriptions and killing. However, the sources agree that enacting the proscriptions was a means by all three factions...

parts, as in tonsure. However, shaving the head entirely is allowed. The proscription is detailed in the hadith. عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ –...

authority, during which absences there may be one for each absentee." This proscription appears again in Article XXX, Paragraph 272 of Regulations for the Army...

Sulla's civil war and the purging of Sulla's political opponents in the proscriptions. Many of the orators which Cicero admired in his youth were now dead...

consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna (father-in-law of Julius Caesar) imposed proscriptions on those surviving Roman senators and equestrians who had supported...