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Forbid :: Forbid (v. t.) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army..

Inhibit :: Inhibit (v. t.) To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict.

Forbid :: Forbid (v. i.) To utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder.

Forbade :: Forbade () imp. of Forbid.

Indulge :: Indulge (v. i.) To indulge one's self; to gratify one's tastes or desires; esp., to give one's self up (to); to practice a forbidden or questionable act without restraint; -- followed by in, but formerly, also, by to..

Bluebeard :: Bluebeard (n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate..

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

Forbid :: Forbid () of Forbi.

Prohibiter :: Prohibiter (n.) One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.

Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices o

Forbid :: Forbid (v. t.) To accurse; to blast.

Negative :: Negative (n.) A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception.

Gainsay :: Gainsay (v. t.) To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.

Sufferance :: Sufferance (n.) Negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; permission; allowance; leave.

Contraband :: Contraband (n.) Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.

Taboo :: Taboo (v. t.) To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals..

Prohibit :: 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..

Covet :: Covet (v. t.) To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).

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

Crime :: Crime (n.) Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law..

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