名詞 outlaw:

1. someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
   同義詞：criminal, felon, crook, malefactor

動(dòng)詞 outlaw:

1. declare illegal; outlaw
   同義詞：criminalize, criminalise, illegalize, illegalise

形容詞 outlaw:

1. contrary to or forbidden by law
   同義詞：illegitimate, illicit, outlawed, unlawful
2. disobedient to or defiant of law
   同義詞：lawless

1. He acted a noble outlaw in the play.
   在這部戲里他扮演一個(gè)高尚逃犯。
2. Bad man, the accidental, noble outlaw.
   有壞人啦，出人意料的逃。
3. Bands of outlaws lived in the desolate mountains after breaking the laws.
   成群的歹徒犯法后棲身于荒山中。

out.law

n.（名詞）

A fugitive from the law.
逃犯：逃離法律的亡命之徒
A habitual criminal.
慣犯
A rebel; a nonconformist:
反叛者：反抗者；不遵照準(zhǔn)則的人：
例句：
a social outlaw.
社會(huì)的叛逆者

A person excluded from normal legal protection and rights.
不受法律保護(hù)的人：被剝奪法律保護(hù)和公民權(quán)的人
A wild or vicious horse or other animal.
野馬：未馴服或難馴服的馬或其他動(dòng)物
v.tr.（及物動(dòng)詞）
out.lawed,out.law.ing,out.laws
To declare illegal:
宣布為非法：
例句：
outlawed the sale of firearms.
宣告販賣(mài)軍火是非法的

To place under a ban; prohibit:
禁止：使處于禁止之下；禁止：
例句：
outlawed smoking in the house.
室內(nèi)禁止吸煙

To deprive (one declared to be a criminal fugitive) of the protection of the law.
剝奪（被宣布為逃犯的人）的法律保護(hù)

來(lái)源：
Middle English outlaue
中古英語(yǔ) outlaue
from Old English ôtlaga
源自 古英語(yǔ) ôtlaga
from Old Norse ôtlagi
源自 古斯堪的納維亞語(yǔ) ôtlagi
from ôtlagr [outlawed, banished]
源自 ôtlagr [非法的，驅(qū)逐的]
ôt [out] * see ud-
ôt [在…之外] *參見(jiàn) ud-
lôg [law] * see legh-
lôg [法律] *參見(jiàn) legh-

【引伸】
out.law.
adj.（形容詞）
<注釋>The wordoutlaw brings to mind cattle rustlers and gunslingers of the Wild West, but it comes to us from a much earlier time,when guns were not yet inventedbut cattle stealing was.Outlaw can be traced back to the Old Norse word ôtlagr, .outlawed, banished,. made up ofôt, .out,. and lôg, .law.. Anôtlagi (derived from ôtlagr ) was someone outside the protection of the law. The Scandinavians, who invaded and settled in England during the 8th through the th century, gave us the Old English wordôtlaga, which designated someone who because of criminal acts must give up his property to the crown and could be killed without recrimination.The legal status of the outlaw became less severe over the course of the Middle Ages.However, the looser use of the word to designate criminals in general, which arose in Middle English, lives on in tales of the Wild West.
單詞outlaw 使人聯(lián)想到美國(guó)西部的偷牛賊和持槍歹徒， 然而在此之前很早這詞就已存在了，那時(shí)槍還沒(méi)有發(fā)明出來(lái)，但已有偷牛賊了。Outlaw 可溯源到古斯堪的納維亞語(yǔ) utlagr， 意為.非法的，被放逐的.， 由ut 意為.在…外.和 log 意為.法律.組成。 Utlagi （從 utlagr 衍生而來(lái)）形容不受法律保護(hù)的人。 在8世紀(jì)到世紀(jì)間侵略并定居于英格蘭的斯堪的納維亞人創(chuàng)造了古英語(yǔ)詞utlaga， 指由于犯罪行為而必須把財(cái)產(chǎn)獻(xiàn)給皇家并且即使被殺死也不能反訴。在中世紀(jì)時(shí)期被放逐者的法律地位不如以前那么嚴(yán)格了。然而中世紀(jì)英語(yǔ)中興起的命名罪犯總稱(chēng)的這種寬松用法在美國(guó)西部的傳說(shuō)中仍然存在