Definition of prohibit

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Prohibit (v. t.) To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing..

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Forspeak :: Forspeak (v. t.) To forbid; to prohibit.
Allowableness :: Allowableness (n.) The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety.
Inhibit :: Inhibit (v. t.) To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict.
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.
Contraband :: Contraband (n.) Illegal or prohibited traffic.
Ban :: Ban (n.) An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription..
Proscriber :: Proscriber (n.) One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits..
Prohibiter :: Prohibiter (n.) One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.
Xenelasia :: Xenelasia (n.) A Spartan institution which prohibited strangers from residing in Sparta without permission, its object probably being to preserve the national simplicity of manners..
Countermand :: Countermand (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.
Veto :: Veto (n.) An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
Forbiddance :: Forbiddance (n.) The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing.
#NAME? :: -ory () An adjective suffix meaning of or pertaining to, serving for; as in auditory, pertaining to or serving for hearing; prohibitory, amendatory, etc..
Prohibited :: Prohibited (imp. & p. p.) of Prohibi.
Annex :: Annex (v. t.) To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt..
Restraint :: Restraint (n.) That which restrains, as a law, a prohibition, or the like; limitation; restriction..
Embargo :: Embargo (v. t.) To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods..
Lancegaye :: Lancegaye (n.) A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II.
Shut :: Shut (v. t.) To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade..
Taboo :: Taboo (n.) A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction..
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