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

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

Proscription :: Proscription (n.) The state of being proscribed; denunciation; interdiction; prohibition.

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

Prohibit :: Prohibit (v. t.) To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude.

Skin :: Skin (v. i.) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use in such exercise cribs, memeoranda, etc., which are prohibited..

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..

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

Quarantine :: Quarantine (n.) Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed..

Incest :: Incest (n.) The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.

Interdict :: Interdict (n.) To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations..

Embar :: Embar (v. t.) To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up.

Export :: Export (n.) The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco..

Forefend :: Forefend (v. t.) To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.

Shut :: Shut (v. t.) To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade..

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

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

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

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

Illicit :: Illicit (a.) Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as, illicit trade; illicit intercourse; illicit pleasure..