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Exclusion :: Exclusion (n.) The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded..

Interdictive :: Interdictive (a.) Having the power to prohibit; as, an interdictive sentence..

Forfend :: Forfend (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.

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

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

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..

Prohibition :: Prohibition (n.) Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages..

Veto :: Veto (n.) A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power..

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

Disobedient :: Disobedient (a.) Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts..

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

Contraband :: Contraband (v. t.) To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle..

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..

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

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

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..

Proscriber :: Proscriber (n.) One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits..

Defence :: Defence (n.) Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.

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

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

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