proscribe/contraindicative

[Bailey]

pro·scribe (pr-skrb)
tr.v. pro·scribed, pro·scrib·ing, pro·scribes
1. To denounce or condemn.
2. To prohibit; forbid. See Synonyms at forbid.
3.
a. To banish or outlaw (a person).
b. To publish the name of (a person) as outlawed.



[Middle English proscriben, from Latin prscrbere, to put up someone's name as outlawed : pr-, in front; see pro-1 + scrbere, to write; see skrbh- in Indo-European roots.]

pro·scriber n.

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I was telling a friend who insists that sugar is really bad that in moderation it is not necessarily proscribed.

con·tra·in·di·cate (kntr-nd-kt)
tr.v. con·tra·in·di·cat·ed, con·tra·in·di·cat·ing, con·tra·in·di·cates
To indicate the inadvisability of (a medical treatment, for example).



contra·in·dica·tive (-n-dk-tv) adj.

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mark not-advisable Bailey

[Ferrus]

I thought it was counterindicative. Or at least that's the word used in The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

[Bailey]

Do you think it's possible that Hollywood got a fact wrong? surely not!

mark no-respect-for-hollywood Bailey

[Ferrus]

I never intimated as much, rather to suggest that there is perhaps a mispronuciation in the air, and to do so with the express purpose of facilitating discussion.

[Bailey]

Ok, fair enough, so I just started a discussion, while I worked in a hospital I heard contra, Perhaps counter is also valid.

mark I-like-your-use-of-intimated Bailey
sometimes I just get tickled by a use of a word I'd forgotten or misplaced in my memory.