Crossword clues for forbade
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forbade \For*bade"\, imp. of Forbid.
Forbid \For*bid"\ (f[o^]r*b[i^]d"), v. t. [imp. Forbade (f[o^]r*b[a^]d"); p. p. Forbidden (f[o^]r*b[i^]d"d'n) ( Forbid, [Obs.]); p. pr. & vb. n. Forbidding (f[o^]r*b[i^]d"d[i^]ng).] [OE. forbeden, AS. forbe['o]dan; pref. for- + be['o]dan to bid; akin to D. verbieden, G. verbieten, Icel. fyrirbj[=o][eth]a, forbo[eth]a, Sw. f["o]rbjuda, Dan. forbyde. See Bid, v. t.]
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To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict.
More than I have said . . . The leisure and enforcement of the time Forbids to dwell upon.
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To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter.
Have I not forbid her my house?
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To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army.
A blaze of glory that forbids the sight.
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To accurse; to blast. [Obs.]
He shall live a man forbid.
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To defy; to challenge. [Obs.]
--L. Andrews.Syn: To prohibit; interdict; hinder; preclude; withhold; restrain; prevent. See Prohibit.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past tense of forbid.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-simple past of: forbid)
WordNet
See forbid
v. command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store" [syn: prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto, disallow] [ant: permit, permit]
keep from happening or arising; have the effect of preventing; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer" [syn: prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude]
[also: forbidding, forbidden, forbade, forbad]
Usage examples of "forbade".
By the Queen's order, he forbade Doplin to keep horse, hawk, or hound, or beast or bird of any kind in his manor.
Chade even forbade him and all who live in his keep the eating of any flesh or fish for a year.
She herself had stood before them, to read aloud to them her royal proclamation that forbade the execution of folk solely for being Witted.
So, little as I have enjoyed your rousing me at such ungodly hours, or your churlish manners when I forbade you access, I shall forgive your behaviour.
Chade forbade it, or any attempts to Skill to you until you were stronger.
Doubtless you never forbade anything to your Hap that you yourself were guilty of.
But he didn’t talk about the Wit much either, other than to tell me he forbade me to touch minds with any beast.
It strictly forbade the playing of pranks that involved the use of Skill.
There were no restricted hours, no confinement to quarters, but the regulations forbade them to leave the Nom at any time.
When the Mothers knew it, they forbade it, though the great beasts were tolerant of the children, and the children’s innocent minds could not disturb the animals.
At times there was such sickness in Duncan’s eyes that Niun forbade him the yin’ein, and refused to practice with him at all.
Niun forbade them with a sharp word, sealed a section door between, and brought Duncan into that section that belonged to the she’pan.
Niun did not follow: the sting of that last exchange perhaps forbade, and his suspicion would worry at him the while Duncan reckoned it, that although Niun slept by him, though he let down his guard to him in weapons-practice, to teach him, Melein’s safety was another matter: the kel’en was deeply, deeply uneasy.
Duncan walked the aisle Niun and the beasts made toward Melein, his heart beating in a lost, forlorn terror, for the dusei gathered the tension they felt and cast it back to him, and he forbade it to swell to rage: no enemies these, not now.
Moses wished to prevent this abuse: hence he forbade the Jews from consulting necromancers, (those who evoke the spirits of the dead.