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Disobedience :: Disobedience (n.) Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.

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..

Forbidden :: Forbidden (a.) Prohibited; interdicted.

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..

Prohibitionist :: Prohibitionist (n.) One who favors prohibitory duties on foreign goods in commerce; a protectionist.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

Embargo :: Embargo (n.) An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.

Not :: Not (adv.) A word used to express negation, prohibition, denial, or refusal..

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..

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

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

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