prescribe or proscribe.formally submit a ban to Parliament. The British government announced plans to proscribe Palestine Action after members broke into a military air base.

Ms. Cooper said that a legal order to ban the group would be submitted to Parliament on June 30. She said Palestine Action had “orchestrated a nationwide campaign of direct criminal action” against defense companies and other targets, putting Britain’s national security at risk. She also said that its activities met the legal definition of terrorism because they included “serious damage to property.”

A protest in support of the activist group Palestine Action in London on Monday. The government said it would formally submit a ban to Parliament next week.Credit...Henry Nicholls/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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The British government announced plans to proscribe Palestine Action after members broke into a military air base.

prescribe

(prĭ-skrīb')
v., -scribed, -scrib·ing, -scribes. v.tr.

1. To set down as a rule or guide; enjoin. See synonyms at dictate.
2. To order the use of (a medicine or other treatment).

v.intr.

1. To establish rules, laws, or directions.
2. To order a medicine or other treatment.
3. Law.
   1. To assert a right or title to something on the grounds of prescription.
   2. To become invalidated or unenforceable by the process of prescription.

[Middle English prescriben, from Latin praescrībere : prae-, pre- + scrībere, to write.]

proscribe

(prō-skrīb')

tr.v., -scribed, -scrib·ing, -scribes.

1. To denounce or condemn.
2. To prohibit; forbid. See synonyms at forbid.
3. 1. To banish or outlaw (a person).
   2. To publish the name of (a person) as outlawed.

[Middle English proscriben, from Latin prōscrībere, to put up someone's name as outlawed : prō-, in front; see pro–¹ + scrībere, to write.]