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Gainsay :: Gainsay (v. t.) To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.

Censor :: Censor (n.) One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries..

Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices o

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

Contraband :: Contraband (n.) Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.

Obscene :: Obscene (a/) Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures..

Forbid :: Forbid (v. t.) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter..

Allowable :: Allowable (a.) Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends..

Fall :: Fall (n.) Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels..

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

Forbidding :: Forbidding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forbi.

Inhibit :: Inhibit (v. t.) To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict.

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 (p. p.) of Forbi.

Consecutive :: Consecutive (a.) Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden..

Covet :: Covet (v. t.) To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).

Taboo :: Taboo (v. t.) To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals..

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

Contraindication :: Contraindication (n.) An indication or symptom which forbids the method of treatment usual in such cases.

Frigid :: Frigid (a.) Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service..

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