proscindt (prosind)

t. [L. proscindere, tear open in front, rend, They did too much proscind and prostitute (as it were) the Imperial purple. Bp . Gauden , Tears of the Church, p. 573. (Davies.) pros cole cine (prō-skol'e-sin), a. [ pro scolex (pro-skōʻleks), n.; pl. pro scolices (-lisēz). [NL., The pro scolex , or six-hooked embryo, which gives rise to the bladder-worm. Encyc . Brit ., XXIII. 52. IMG:content-1125.png:[blocks in formation] [Rare in both uses.] proscription (pro-skrip's hon), 1), п . script i on = Sp. pro scrip cion = Pg. proscripção = tice, advertisement, pp. proscript us , publish, proscribe: see pro scribe .] The act of proscribing; outlawry; denunciation; prohibition; exclusion; specifically, the dooming of citizens to death as public enemies, and the confiscation of their goods. The two great proscriptions in Roman history were that by Sulla about 82 B. c., and that by the second triumvirate 43 в. с. By proscription and bills of outlawry, Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus Have put to death an hundred senators. Shak., J. C., iv. 3. 173. proscriptive (prō-skriptiv), a. [L. proscrip tus, pp. of proscribere, publish, proscribe: see proscribe.] Pertaining to or consisting in proscription; proscribing; disposed to proscribe. The Imperial ministers pursued with proscriptive laws and ineffectual arms the rebels whom they had made. Gibbon , Decline and Fall, xxxv. People frequently acquire in such confederacies a narrow, bigoted, and proscriptive spirit. Burke , Present Discontents. proscriptively (prō-skriptiv-li), adv. In a proscriptive manner. pro scutal (pro-skū'tal), a. [ tellum. pro scutellum (prō-skū-tel'um), n.; pl. proscu tell a (-a). [NL., pro scutum (prō-skūtum), n.; pl. proscuta (-tä). [NL.,