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n.
An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; -- used in distinction fraom common law. See Common law, under Common, a.
a.
Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price.
adv.
A word used to express negation, prohibition, denial, or refusal.
n.
A Spartan institution which prohibited strangers from residing in Sparta without permission, its object probably being to preserve the national simplicity of manners.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Prohibit
a.
That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive.
n.
The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.
v. t.
To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment; as, to veto an appropriation bill.
v. i.
To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use in such exercise cribs, memeoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
n.
One who favors the prohibition of the sale (or of the sale and manufacture) of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
n.
A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction.
n.
One who favors prohibitory duties on foreign goods in commerce; a protectionist.
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.
n.
One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.
v. t.
To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade.
n.
The exercise of such authority; an act of prohibition or prevention; as, a veto is probable if the bill passes.
v. t.
To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices.
n.
An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
imp. & p. p.
of Prohibit
n.
A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power.
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