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dding some action; interdict. The law of God, in the ten commandments, consists mostly of prohibitions. Tillotson.

One who favors the prohibition of the sale (or of the sale and manufacture) of alcoholic liquors as beverages.

The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South.

To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt.

An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription. "Under ban to touch." Milton.

oing business in a city and living in a suburb. Commutation tickets are excepted from the prohibition against special rates contained in the Interstate Commerce Act of Feb. 4, 1887 (24 Stat. 379), and in 145 U. S. 263 it was held that party tickets were also excepted as being "obviously within the commuting principle."…

ed in a cause. Writ of consultation (Law), a writ by which a cause, improperly removed by prohibition from one court to another, is returned to the court from which it came; -- so called because the judges, on consultation, find the prohibition ill-founded.

To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly. [Obs.] There is a prohibition so divine, That cravens my weak hand. Shak.

Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance. [Obs.] Severe defenses . . . against wearing any linen under a certain breadth. Sir W. Temple.

Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition. He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience. Tillotson.

To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up. He embarred all further trade. Bacon.

the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.

hutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded. His sad exclusion from the doors of bliss. Milton. The exclusion of the duke from the crown of England and Ireland. Hume.

To utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder. "I did not or forbid." Milton.

The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing. [Obs.] ow hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance. Milton.

A writ of prohibition against proceeding in the spiritual court in certain cases, when the suit belongs to the common-law courts. Wharton (Law Dict. ).

The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.

A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition. These are not fruits forbidden; no interdict Defends the touching of these viands pure. Milton.

The act of interdicting; prohibition; prohibiting decree; curse; interdict. The truest issue of thy throne By his own interdiction stands accurst. Shak.

A prohibition against proceeding further; an insuperable obstacle or limiting condition. [Obs. or R.]