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

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

Veto :: Veto (n.) The exercise of such authority; an act of prohibition or prevention; as, a veto is probable if the bill passes..

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.) Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages..

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

Xenelasia :: Xenelasia (n.) A Spartan institution which prohibited strangers from residing in Sparta without permission, its object probably being to preserve the national simplicity of manners..

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

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

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

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..

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..

Proscript :: Proscript (n.) A proscription; a prohibition; an interdict.

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

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

Interdiction :: Interdiction (n.) The act of interdicting; prohibition; prohibiting decree; curse; interdict.

Prohibited :: Prohibited (imp. & p. p.) of Prohibi.

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

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

Enactment :: Enactment (n.) That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment..

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