Definition of prohibition

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Prohibition (n.) The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.

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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..
Allowableness :: Allowableness (n.) The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety.
Embar :: Embar (v. t.) To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up.
Ban :: Ban (n.) An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription..
Interdiction :: Interdiction (n.) The act of interdicting; prohibition; prohibiting decree; curse; interdict.
Inhibition :: Inhibition (n.) The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo..
Interdict :: Interdict (n.) A prohibition of the pope, by which the clergy or laymen are restrained from performing, or from attending, divine service, or from administering the offices or enjoying the privileges of the church..
Prohibitionist :: Prohibitionist (n.) One who favors the prohibition of the sale (or of the sale and manufacture) of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
Not :: Not (adv.) A word used to express negation, prohibition, denial, or refusal..
Prohibitionist :: Prohibitionist (n.) One who favors prohibitory duties on foreign goods in commerce; a protectionist.
Forbid :: Forbid (v. i.) To utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder.
Interdict :: Interdict (n.) A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition.
Restraint :: Restraint (n.) That which restrains, as a law, a prohibition, or the like; limitation; restriction..
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..
Prohibitory :: Prohibitory (a.) Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price..
Taboo :: Taboo (n.) A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction..
Forbiddance :: Forbiddance (n.) The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing.
Veto :: Veto (n.) An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
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..
Proscript :: Proscript (n.) A proscription; a prohibition; an interdict.
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