outlaw (redirected from banditry)

outlaw n. popularly, anyone who commits serious crimes and acts outside the law.

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outlaw noun bandit, brigand, convict, criminal, delinquent, evildoer, felon, fugitive, fugitive from the law, habitual criminal, habitual offender, hardened criminal, lawbreaker, lawless individual, malefactor, miscreant, nooorious criminal, offender, offender against society, public enemy, racketeer, recidivist, robber, swindler, thief, transgressor, underworld character, violator of the law

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outlaw verb aqua et igni interdicere, banish, bar, deelare illegal, declare unlawful, exclude, expel, forbid by law, make unlawful, place outside the protection of the law, proscribe, proscribere, put beyond the protection of the law, reject, repel

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See also: ban, banish, bar, condemn, convict, criminal, debar, denounce, deport, disfranchise, eliminate, exclude, expatriate, expel, felon, foe, forbid, hoodlum, isolate, lawless, malefactor, pariah, prohibit, proscribe, recidivist, relegate, seclude, thief, wrongdoer

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OUTLAW, Eng. law. One who is put out of the protection or aid of the law. 22 Vin. Ab. 316; 1 Phil. Ev. Index, h.t.; Bac. Ab. Outlawry; 2 Sell. Pr. 277; Doct. Pl. 331; 3 Bl. Com. 283, 4.