What is "forbiddance"

Forbiddance \For*bid"dance\, n. The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing. [Obs.]

How hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance.
--Milton.

n. an official prohibition or edict against something.

1. n. an official prohibition or edict against something [syn: ban, banning, forbidding]

2. the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance" [syn: prohibition, inhibition]