Definition of prohibit

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

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Restraint :: Restraint (n.) That which restrains, as a law, a prohibition, or the like; limitation; restriction..
Proscriber :: Proscriber (n.) One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits..
Veto :: Veto (n.) An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
Forbid :: Forbid (v. t.) To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict..
Disobedience :: Disobedience (n.) Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.
Ban :: Ban (n.) A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation..
Embargo :: Embargo (v. t.) To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods..
Forbiddance :: Forbiddance (n.) The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing.
Countermand :: Countermand (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.
Contraband :: Contraband (a.) Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade..
Interdict :: Interdict (n.) To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations..
Forbidden :: Forbidden (a.) Prohibited; interdicted.
Exclusion :: Exclusion (n.) The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded..
Bar :: Bar (n.) To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up..
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..
Forspeak :: Forspeak (v. t.) To forbid; to prohibit.
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..
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.
Prohibition :: Prohibition (n.) Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages..
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