Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fugitive from the law.
- noun A habitual criminal.
- noun A rebel; a nonconformist.
- noun A person excluded from normal legal protection and rights.
- noun A wild or vicious horse or other animal.
- transitive verb To declare illegal.
- transitive verb To place under a ban; prohibit.
- transitive verb To deprive (one declared to be a criminal fugitive) of the protection of the law.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection. Formerly it was lawful in Great Britain for any one to kill such a person. See
outlawry . - noun A disorderly person living in defiant violation of the law; a habitual criminal.
- noun Synonyms Robber, bandit, brigand, freebooter, highwayman, marauder.
- To deprive of the benefit and protection of law; declare an outlaw; proscribe.
- To remove from legal jurisdiction; deprive of legal force. An obligation which by reason of the lapse of time has become barred by the statute of limitations, so that no action will lie on it, is said to be outlawed.
- noun A vicious, untamed animal: sometimes used attributively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.
- noun A person engaging habitually in criminal activity, especially theft or robbery; an habitually lawless person, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
- transitive verb To deprive of the benefit and protection of law; to declare to be an outlaw.
- transitive verb To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement; ; to deprive of legal force.
- transitive verb To render illegal; to ban, prohibit, or proscribe under sanction of some penalty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fugitive from thelaw . - noun A person who is excluded from normal
legal rights . - noun A person who operates outside established
norms . - noun A
wild horse . - noun humorous An
in-law : a relative by marriage. - verb To declare illegal
- verb To place a ban upon
- verb To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement.
- verb To deprive of legal force.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective disobedient to or defiant of law
- adjective contrary to or forbidden by law
- verb declare illegal; outlaw
- noun someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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"we outlaw a member of our own society and belonging to our own country; but to _outlaw_ the chiefs of another country is something too absurd; I fear the English language is not much studied at the Cape."
The Mission Frederick Marryat 1820
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"we outlaw a member of our own society and belonging to our own country; but to _outlaw_ the chiefs of another country is something too absurd; I fear the English language is not much studied at the Cape."
The Mission; or Scenes in Africa Frederick Marryat 1820
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Dorothy Provine, a stunningly beautiful actress who starred as the title outlaw in "The Bonnie Parker Story" (1958) and then as a flapper showgirl in the short-lived TV drama "The Roaring Twenties," died April 25.
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Dorothy Provine, 75, an actress who played the title outlaw in the film "The Bonnie Parker Story" and was the high-kicking flapper in the 1960s TV series "The Roaring 20's," died April 25 at a hospice near her home in Bremerton, Wash.
Actress Dorothy Provine dies; played Bonnie Parker in film, Pinky Pinkham on TV 2010
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Raging street battles began Tuesday in Basra after the government led a crackdown on what it calls outlaw or rogue militants.
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Mr. Bush will not say Iraq had a role in organizing 9/11, but he will say the gravest danger in the war on terror is what he calls outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
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And then they found the word outlaw and they decided that would smooth it out a little bit.
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And then they found the word outlaw and they decided that would smooth it out a little bit.
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And then they found the word outlaw and they decided that would smooth it out a little bit.
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And then they found the word outlaw and they decided that would smooth it out a little bit.
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