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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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..
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..
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..
Interdict :: Interdict (n.) To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations..
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..
Prohibitionist :: Prohibitionist (n.) One who favors prohibitory duties on foreign goods in commerce; a protectionist.
Prohibitory :: Prohibitory (a.) Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price..
Incest :: Incest (n.) The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.
Enjoin :: Enjoin (v. t.) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.
Prohibited :: Prohibited (imp. & p. p.) of Prohibi.
Not :: Not (adv.) A word used to express negation, prohibition, denial, or refusal..
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..
Proscribe :: Proscribe (v. t.) To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit; as, the Puritans proscribed theaters..
Disobedience :: Disobedience (n.) Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.
Forfend :: Forfend (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
Injunction :: Injunction (n.) The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or prohibiting..
Export :: Export (n.) The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco..
Lancegaye :: Lancegaye (n.) A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II.
Proscript :: Proscript (n.) A proscription; a prohibition; an interdict.
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..
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