outlaw: Meaning and Definition of

out•law

1. a lawless person or habitual criminal, esp. 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.
1. a horse that cannot be broken; a mean, intractable horse.
2. any rogue animal.

1. to make unlawful or illegal: The Eighteenth Amendment outlawed the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating beverages in the U.S.
2. to deprive of thebenefits and protection of the law: Members of guerrilla bands who refused to surrender were outlawed.
3. to prohibit: to outlaw smoking in a theater.
4. to remove from legal jurisdiction; deprive of legal force.

1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an outlaw.