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#NAME? :: -ory () An adjective suffix meaning of or pertaining to, serving for; as in auditory, pertaining to or serving for hearing; prohibitory, amendatory, etc..

Lancegaye :: Lancegaye (n.) A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II.

Prohibitive :: Prohibitive (a.) That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive..

Contraband :: Contraband (a.) Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade..

Prohibitory :: Prohibitory (a.) Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price..

Forbidding :: Forbidding (a.) Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air..

Prohibitionist :: Prohibitionist (n.) One who favors the prohibition of the sale (or of the sale and manufacture) of alcoholic liquors as beverages.

Forbiddance :: Forbiddance (n.) The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing.

Contraband :: Contraband (v. t.) To declare prohibited; to forbid.

Forbid :: Forbid (v. t.) To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict..

Statute :: Statute (n.) An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; -- used in distinction fraom common law. See Common law, under Common, a..

Prohibition :: Prohibition (n.) The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.

Enjoin :: Enjoin (v. t.) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.

Inhibition :: Inhibition (n.) The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo..

Proscribe :: Proscribe (v. t.) To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit; as, the Puritans proscribed theaters..

Tolerate :: Tolerate (v. t.) To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices..

Forspeak :: Forspeak (v. t.) To forbid; to prohibit.

Disobedience :: Disobedience (n.) Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.

Exogamy :: Exogamy (n.) The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to endogamy..

Injunction :: Injunction (n.) The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or prohibiting..

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