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Webster 1913 Edition
Prohibit
Pro-hib′it
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Prohibited
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Prohibiting
.] [L.
prohibitus
, p. p. of prohibere
to prohibit; pro
before, forth + habere
to have, hold. See Habit
.] 1.
To forbid by authority; to interdict;
as, God
; we prohibited
Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain treeprohibit
a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law
. prohibits
men from stealing, or it prohibits
stealing☞ Prohibit was formerly followed by to with the infinitive, but is now commonly followed by from with the verbal noun in -ing.
2.
To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude.
Gates of burning adamant,
Barred over us,
Barred over us,
prohibit
all egress. Milton.
Syn. – To forbid; interdict; debar; prevent; hinder.
Webster 1828 Edition
Prohibit
PROHIB'IT
,Verb.
T.
1.
To forbid; to interdict by authority; applicable to persons or things, but implying authority or right. God prohibited Adam to eat of the fruit of a certain tree. The moral law prohibits what is wrong and commands what is right. We prohibit a person to do a thing, and we prohibit the thing to be done.2.
To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude. Gates of burning adamant,
Barr'd over us, prohibit all egress.
Definition 2024
prohibit
prohibit
English
Verb
prohibit (third-person singular simple present prohibits, present participle prohibiting, simple past and past participle prohibited)
- (transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
- 2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:
- In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
- The restaurant prohibits smoking on the patio.
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Translations
to proscribe officially
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See also
External links
- prohibit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- prohibit in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911