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noun
1.
a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
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a person, group, or thing excluded from the benefits and protection of the law.
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a person under sentence of outlawry.
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a person who refuses to be governed by the established rules or practices of any group; rebel; nonconformist: one of the outlaws of country music.
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verb (used with object)
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to make unlawful or illegal: The Eighteenth Amendment outlawed the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating beverages in the U.S.
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to deprive of thebenefits and protection of the law: Members of guerrilla bands who refused to surrender were outlawed.
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to prohibit: to outlaw smoking in a theater.
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to remove from legal jurisdiction; deprive of legal force.
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Outlawed
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adjective
10.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an outlaw.
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Word Origin & History
outlaw
O.E. utlaga "one put outside the law" (and thereby deprived of its benefits and protections), from O.N. utlagi (n.) "outlaw," from utlagr (adj.) "outlawed, banished," from ut "out" + *lagu, pl. of lag "law" (see law).
EXPAND"[G]if he man to deaðe gefylle, beo he þonne utlah" ["Laws of Edward & Guthrum," c.924]The verb is from O.E. utlagian. Meaning "one living a lawless life" is first recorded 1880.
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