The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prohibit \Pro*hib"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prohibited; p. pr. & vb. n. Prohibiting.] [L. prohibitus, p. p. of prohibere to prohibit; pro before, forth + habere to have, hold. See Habit.]
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To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing.
Note: Prohibit was formerly followed by to with the infinitive, but is now commonly followed by from with the verbal noun in -ing.
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To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude.
Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress.
--Milton.Syn: To forbid; interdict; debar; prevent; hinder.
Usage: Prohibit, Forbid. To forbid is Anglo-Saxon, and is more familiar; to prohibit is Latin, and is more formal or official. A parent forbids his child to be out late at night; he prohibits his intercourse with the profane and vicious.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of prohibit English)
Usage examples of "prohibiting".
Confederation imposes thirty-year sanction against Omuta, prohibiting any interstellar trade or transport.
Such punishments could include denying the country all assistance by international financial institutions, prohibiting all foreign aid or investment, or, at the most extreme, prohibiting all trade with the country for a period of six, twelve, or twenty-four months.
Because it contains a provision prohibiting the execution of children under eighteen, and we want to remain free to execute our children.
Pro-choice Clinton, like the two presidents before him, had already signed an order prohibiting any American funds from paying for abortions in foreign countries.
These nineteen Republicans, with the Democrats, passed a bill not only prohibiting Bush from reversing Clinton&rquo.
Whence we conclude that it was not the gods, who are all good and highly exalted, that Plato deprived of the pleasure of theatric plays, by reprobating and prohibiting the fictions of the poets, but the demons.
But if Plato showed himself virtuous in answering and prohibiting these things, then certainly it was shameful of the demons to command them.
It is also my understanding that the court is issuing a gag order which prohibits anyone from telling anybody at all that this court will not allow us to call Chris Morgan, and thus, there is no answer to why Chris Morgan was not called, and you are prohibiting us from telling the press that the State of Arkansas objected to this evidence and this witness, and that you would not allow us to question him and you would not allow us to discuss your ruling at all, and this is a public trial, which has been continually played out in front of the press, and at this point in time, when there is evidence that is detrimental to the state, it is being done in private.
She immediately declared a C4 condition, prohibiting the suspected hostile starship from moving, and requesting the patrol voidhawks to interdict.