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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disallow
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
disallow a goal (=not allow a goal to be counted because a rule has been broken)
▪ The goal was disallowed for offside.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Judge Nisen disallowed certain evidence containing confidential information.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As is indicated above the judge must specify the sum to be disallowed or ordered.
▪ Home striker Paul Crimmen let them off the hook on a number of occasions and Horsham had two goals disallowed.
▪ It cost £639, expenditure which the district auditor disallowed.
▪ Peacock had the ball in the net after 65 minutes but the effort was disallowed.
▪ The court confirmed a 1989 federal ruling disallowing legal action against the logging brought on environmental grounds.
▪ These will eventually be disallowed on taxation.
▪ We would disallow any involving the mediation of language, including, of course, the belief that it believes.
▪ You always hear of the 2 goals they had disallowed ... so!?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disallow

Disallow \Dis`al*low"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disallowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Disallowing.] [Pref. dis- + allow: cf. OF. desalouer, desloer, to blame, dissuade.] To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.

To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God.
--1 Pet. ii. 4.

That the edicts of C[ae]sar we may at all times disallow, but the statutes of God for no reason we may reject.
--Milton.

Note: This verb was sometimes followed by of; as, ``What follows, if we disallow of this?''
--Shak. See Allow.

Syn: To disapprove; prohibit; censure; reject.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disallow

late 14c., "to refuse to praise," from Old French desalouer "to blame," from des- (see dis-) + alouer (see allow); meaning "to reject" is from 1550s. Related: Disallowed; disallowing; disallowance.

Wiktionary
disallow

vb. 1 To refuse to allow 2 To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper

WordNet
disallow

v. command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store" [syn: forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto] [ant: permit, permit]

Wikipedia
Disallow

Disallow is the third album by High Rise, released on May 25, 1996 through P.S.F. Records.

Usage examples of "disallow".

We have conferred and decided that the only way this can be reasonably achieved over the long term is to disallow direct interfacing unless specific threats and conditions are met.

Befores being specifically disallowed on Irikwae at least, it seemed that his duty was to alert the Master of Exhibits to the problem.

Alas, his piloting instructor, aside from being a demon on rote, had disallowed his request to double his shifts so that he might depart a Common month early with his big-ship license.

Gene selection beyond physical pick-and-choose, commercial AI, even personal comm units were either disallowed or else heavily regulated on Solcintra, and though many such devices would have given the service class an easier life, they seemed as wedded to the minimal tech as their now-departed overseers.

Modrid disallowed the trades you had completed at the word of your master trader--for which you utilized monies drawn on her accredited and known apprentice sub-account--and that he required the master trader to re-authorize each transaction recorded under that sub-account.

All Security personnel have been disallowed access to the 7800 network.

He replied that she had wished to do so, but that he had disallowed it, and he easily convinced me that this improvisation would have been the ruin of her fine talent.

California statute prohibiting the issuance of fishing licenses to persons ineligible to citizenship is disallowed, both on the basis of Amendment XIV and on the ground that the statute invaded a field of power reserved to the National Government, namely, the determination of the conditions on which aliens may be admitted, naturalized, and permitted to reside in the United States.

Patent Office held hearings to examine questions raised by gene patenting, turning back the clock to disallow such patents, as some critics urge, seems unlikely.

And during the assigned interval the Judge shall diligently examine the copy of the appeal, and the reasons or objections upon which it is based, and shall consult with learned lawyers whether he shall submit negative apostils, that is, negative answers, and thereby disallow the appeal, or whether he shall allow the appeal and submit affirmative and fitting apostils to the Judge to whom the appeal is made.

The hairy belly of him pressed to mine, he kept me from his maleness with his fists in my hair, disallowing more than the faint touch of its end against me.

Greatly disturbed did Renin seem, though she disallowed much outward evidence of it, and she shook her head as Ennat and I looked upon her.

Once again an entry spell had refused to register, as though no such thing was possible rather than that someone stronger was disallowing it.

Modrid disallowed the trades you had completed at the word of your master trader--for which you utilized monies drawn on her accredited and known apprentice sub-account--and that he required the master trader to re-authorize each transaction recorded under that sub-account.

He just had no clue when it came to the Medicare rules and regulationswhich items were billable and which would automatically be disallowed, co-payments, deductibles, claims for fee-based services.