outlawest
noun
1.
a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
2.
a person, group, or thing excluded from the benefits and protection of the law.
3.
a person under sentence of outlawry.
4.
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.
5.
verb (used with object)
6.
to make unlawful or illegal: The Eighteenth Amendment outlawed the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating beverages in the U.S.
7.
to deprive of thebenefits and protection of the law: Members of guerrilla bands who refused to surrender were outlawed.
8.
to prohibit: to outlaw smoking in a theater.
9.
to remove from legal jurisdiction; deprive of legal force.
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adjective
10.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an outlaw.
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| —n | |
| 1. | (formerly) a person excluded from the law and deprived of its protection |
| 2. | any fugitive from the law, esp a habitual transgressor |
| 3. | a wild or untamed beast |
| —vb | |
| 4. | to put (a person) outside the law and deprive of its protection |
| 5. | (in the US) to deprive (a contract) of legal force |
| 6. | to ban |
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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).
"[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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