Definition of forbid

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

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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..
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..
Grimness :: Grimness (n.) Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.
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..
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
Forbid :: Forbid (v. t.) To defy; to challenge.
Forbiddenly :: Forbiddenly (adv.) In a forbidden or unlawful manner.
Mamzer :: Mamzer (n.) A person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard.
Contraband :: Contraband (a.) Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade..
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..
Collusion :: Collusion (n.) An agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law..
Repulsive :: Repulsive (a.) Cold; forbidding; offensive; as, repulsive manners..
Forbidder :: Forbidder (n.) One who forbids.
Forbid :: Forbid (v. t.) To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict..
Black :: Black (a.) Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible..
Prohibitory :: Prohibitory (a.) Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price..
Forbid :: Forbid (v. t.) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter..
Interdict :: Interdict (n.) To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations..
Ban :: Ban (v. t.) To forbid; to interdict.
Adultery :: Adultery (n.) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment..
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