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

Allowableness :: Allowableness (n.) The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety.

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

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..

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..

Indicavit :: Indicavit (n.) A writ of prohibition against proceeding in the spiritual court in certain cases, when the suit belongs to the common-law courts..

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

Interdictory :: Interdictory (a.) Belonging to an interdiction; prohibitory.

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

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

Veto :: Veto (v. t.) To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment; as, to veto an appropriation bill..

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

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

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..

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

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.

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

Contraband :: Contraband (n.) Illegal or prohibited traffic.

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

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