Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of prohibition is as below...

Embar :: Embar (v. t.) To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up.

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

Proscription :: Proscription (n.) The state of being proscribed; denunciation; interdiction; prohibition.

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..

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.

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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

Prohibitory :: Prohibitory (a.) Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price..

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

Restraint :: Restraint (n.) That which restrains, as a law, a prohibition, or the like; limitation; restriction..

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

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..

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

Random Fonts

Most Popular