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Legal :: Legal (a.) Created by, permitted by, in conformity with, or relating to, law; as, a legal obligation; a legal standard or test; a legal procedure; a legal claim; a legal trade; anything is legal which the laws do not forbid..

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

Sufferance :: Sufferance (n.) Negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; permission; allowance; leave.

Inalienably :: Inalienably (adv.) In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested..

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

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

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

Forbade :: Forbade () imp. of Forbid.

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

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..

Interdict :: Interdict (n.) To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations..

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

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

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

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..

Inhibition :: Inhibition (n.) A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal..

Shaddock :: Shaddock (n.) A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous..

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..

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..

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..

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