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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..

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..

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..

Hercogamous :: Hercogamous (a.) Not capable of self-fertilization; -- said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy.

Redemptorist :: Redemptorist (n.) One of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liquori. It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the instruction of youth..

Forbid :: Forbid (v. t.) To accurse; to blast.

Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.

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

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

Black-browed :: Black-browed (a.) Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.

Countermand :: Countermand (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.

Contraband :: Contraband (v. t.) To declare prohibited; to forbid.

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

Repulsive :: Repulsive (a.) Cold; forbidding; offensive; as, repulsive manners..

Forfend :: Forfend (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.

Shield :: Shield (n.) To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid!.

Forbid :: Forbid (v. t.) To defy; to challenge.

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..

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..

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

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