proscribers

It is the irony of history that puts among the forty proscribers of the Talmud assembled at Paris in the thirteenth century the Dominican Albertus Magnus, who, in his successful efforts to divert scholastic philosophy into new channels, depended entirely upon the writings and translations of the very Jews he was helping to persecute.

Jewish Literature and Other Essays Gustav Karpeles 1878

What, gentlemen, would you transform into arbitrary proscribers the founders of liberty?

History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution Alphonse de Lamartine 1829

The French have given out, that the Duke of Brunswick endeavored to negotiate some name and place for the captive king, amongst the murderers and proscribers of those who have lost their all for his cause.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

The point was I read, read well, and had parents who supplied me endless books - and access the local children's library before the proscribers and Bowdlerisers got at the Blytons.

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