Prohibited

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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     1. 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.
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     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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     2. To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude.
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              Gates of burning adamant,
              Barred over us, prohibit all egress.  --Milton.
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     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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  prohibited
       adj 1: excluded from use or mention; "forbidden fruit"; "in our
              house dancing and playing cards were out"; "a taboo
              subject" [syn: {forbidden}, {out(p)}, {proscribed}, {taboo},
               {tabu}, {verboten}]
       2: forbidden by law [syn: {banned}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "prohibited":
     absurd, banned, barred, closed-out, contraband, contrary to reason,
     debarred, deported, ejected, excluded, exiled, expelled, forbade,
     forbid, forbidden, hopeless, illegal, illicit, impossible,
     inconceivable, left out, liquidated, logically impossible,
     nonpermissible, not in it, not included, not permitted,
     not possible, off limits, out of bounds, outlawed, oxymoronic,
     paradoxical, precluded, preposterous, purged, ridiculous,
     ruled out, ruled-out, self-contradictory, shut out, taboo, tabooed,
     unallowed, unauthorized, under the ban, unimaginable, unlawful,
     unlicensed, unpermissible, unsanctioned, unthinkable, untouchable,
     verboten, vetoed