Crossword clues for forbid
forbid
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forbid \For*bid"\, v. i.
To utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder. ``I did not or
forbid.''
--Milton.
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
Old English forbeodan "forbid, prohibit" (past tense forbead, plural forbudon, past participle forboden), from for- "against" + beodan "to command" (see bid (v.)). Common Germanic compound (compare Old Frisian forbiada , Dutch verbieden, Old High German farbiotan, German verbieten, Old Norse fyrirbjoða, Swedish förbjuda, Gothic faurbiudan "to forbid").\n
\nIn Middle English the past tense was forbad, the plural forbade, the past participle forbode. Related: Forbade; forbidden. Expression God forbid is recorded by early 13c. Forbidden fruit is from Gen. ii:17.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To disallow; to proscribe. 2 (context transitive English) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command. 3 (context transitive English) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command. 4 (context transitive obsolete English) To accurse; to blast. 5 (context transitive obsolete English) To defy; to challenge.
WordNet
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]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "forbid".
The same women that despised Sky Eyes, that gossiped about her and futilely forbade their sons to come near her, they came for abortifacients, joint easers, the silvery drink that brought one out of a dark mood, a dozen other things.
A State statute which forbids bodies of men to associate together as military organizations, or to drill or parade with arms in cities and towns unless authorized by law, does not abridge the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
He publicly chastised the cardinals for absenteeism, luxury, and lascivious life, forbade them to hold or sell plural benefices, prohibited their acceptance of pensions, gifts of money, and other favors from secular sources, ordered the papal treasurer not to pay them their customary half of the revenue from benefices but to use it for the restoration of churches in Rome.
Ravensbund as he ruled the rest of Achar, but as far as the Ravensbundmen knew or cared, the Achar King had as much control over them as he did over the Forbidden.
If Priam were to ally himself with Axis and his ungodly hordes, then the Forbidden could invade Achar and all would be lost.
She related to me in the most assuring manner that the handsomest of all the nuns in the convent loved her to distraction, gave her a French lesson twice a-day, and had amicably forbidden her to become acquainted with the other boarders.
But pray, listen: all human beings who are born, however numerous and of whatever religion, can be saved if only they acknowledge God and live according to the precepts of the Decalog, which forbid committing murder, adultery, theft, and false witness because to do such things is contrary to religion and therefore contrary to God.
The king has heard some stories of this famous adventurer, which compel him to forbid him his Court.
He might have made a spear out of whalebone and wood, but he remembered that his vow of ahimsa forbade him to harm any animal, even a desperate tiger, even in defence of his own blessed life.
I used to go rather often to say mass, but I had words with Carlos Alcazar, and he forbade me to come.
I was allowed to communicate with no one, and even the alguazil who guarded me was forbidden, under pain of death, to speak to me.
Uncle Ames was forbidden by that same will to give them any, under threat of losing his own inheritance.
My amorous ardour and my rage forbade all thoughts of rest, and my excited passions conspired against that which would enable them to satisfy their desires.
Behind us rose a dark and forbidding wood of giant arborescent ferns intermingled with the commoner types of a primeval tropical forest.
And that Lord Asper, the old demon master wizard, had been part of the committee of wizards who ended those wars by creating the Forbidden Desert that divided the two species for centuries.