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Veto :: Veto (n.) An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

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..

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

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

Grimness :: Grimness (n.) Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.

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

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

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..

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

Indulge :: Indulge (v. i.) To indulge one's self; to gratify one's tastes or desires; esp., to give one's self up (to); to practice a forbidden or questionable act without restraint; -- followed by in, but formerly, also, by to..

Forbid :: Forbid () of Forbi.

Suffer :: Suffer (v. t.) To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate.

Forbiddenly :: Forbiddenly (adv.) In a forbidden or unlawful manner.

Forbid :: Forbid (v. t.) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army..

Bluebeard :: Bluebeard (n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate..

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..

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

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

Presence :: Presence (n.) The place in which one is present; the part of space within one's ken, call, influence, etc.; neighborhood without the intervention of anything that forbids intercourse..

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