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To deprive of the benefit and protection of law; to declare to be an outlaw; to proscribe. Blackstone.

The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man (as an absconding criminal) is deprived of that protection.

tion of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder. Abbott.

subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder. No person shall be attainted of high treason where corruption of blood is incurred, but by the oath of two witnesses. Stat. 7 & 8 Wm. III.…

An outlaw; a brigand. No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton.

metrically opposed. [Obs.] Sin can have no tenure by law at all, but is rather an eternal outlaw, and in hostility with law past all atonement; both diagonal contraries, as much allowing one another as day and night together in one hemisphere. Milton.

The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry. Abbott.

Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong. Outlaws . . . lurking in woods and fast places. Spenser.

The restitution of an outlawed person to the protection of the law; inlawing. Bouvier.

To clear of outlawry or attainder; to place under the protection of the law. Burrill.

To outlaw by public proclamation. I heard myself proclaimed. Shak.

To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents. Robert Vere, Earl of Oxford, . . . was banished the realm, and proscribed. Spenser.

The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription. Every victory by either party had been followed by a sanguinary proscrip…

The receiving of stolen goods, or harboring an outlaw. Jamieson.

ounts to an official declaration that it is false; the reversal of an attainder, or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered void. Blackstone.

ad been discharged or ostracized and had become a wanderer without a lord; an outcast; an outlaw.

Briskly; with speed. locke. Two of the outlaws walked roundly forward. Sir W. Scott.

To practice plunder or robbery. Outlaws, which, lurking in woods, used to break forth to rob and spoil. Spenser.

g; theft. [Obs.] The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw. Spenser.

To put beyond protection of law; to outlaw. [Obs.]