- (v.t.) To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude.
- (v.t.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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