Definition of Prohibit

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Prohibit

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.

To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude.

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Prohibit Quotations

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
Sun Tzu

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms.
Steve Wozniak

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Freda Adler

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
Leon Kass

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
Kate Adie

I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.
Tom Allen

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.
Dean Kamen

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.
Corrine Brown

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

Prohibit Translations

prohibit in Danish is forbyde
prohibit in Dutch is verbieden
prohibit in French is prohibent, prohibons, prohibez, prohiber
prohibit in German is untersage, untersagen
prohibit in Latin is prohibeo, interdico

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