Word Finder - forbidden

definition

To disallow; to proscribe.

example

Smoking in the restaurant is forbidden.

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(ditransitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.

definition

To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.

example

An impassable river forbids the approach of the army.

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To accurse; to blast.

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To defy; to challenge.

example

What part of "no" do you forbid to understand?

definition

Not allowed; specifically disallowed.

synonyms

• prohibited
• verboten

There are many things I'm forbidden from telling you.

You're forbidden from entering, Rhyn.

The kitten gazed wistfully at the forbidden fruit.

That's not forbidden by his law.

She was forbidden to engage the operator in any conversation and make the call as brief as possible.

The ejected ministers were forbidden to preach or administer the sacraments.

The men were forbidden to talk out loud, to smoke their pipes, or to strike a light, and they tried to prevent their horses neighing.

Alex had strictly forbidden her to ride alone there after the wild dog problem.

When Descartes complained to the authorities of this unfair treatment, 4 the only reply was an order by which all mention of the name of Cartesianism, whether favourable or adverse, was forbidden in the university.

Distraint on a debtor's corn was forbidden by the Code; not only must the creditor give it back, but his illegal action forfeited his claim altogether.

We Originals are forbidden from fighting one another.

The only result of his letter, however, was that he was forbidden to re-enter Sardinian territory.

The Jews were forbidden to enter the new city of Jerusalem on pain of death.

Just stepping into the cave-like master bedroom made her feel as if she was entering some forbidden place.

We had always teetered on the edge, Martha and me, even as young children, playing you-show-me-yours-I'll-show-you-mine and sneaking to places forbidden.

His power comes from the depraved and the forbidden.

Women are forbidden to fight.

Killing in cold blood was forbidden.

Contingent appropriations are forbidden, and the constitution contains a long list of subjects on which special laws may not be passed.

You can't be serious about following him.  It's forbidden for us to travel uninvited into Death's domain.

Smoking is strictly forbidden in any public area of the Relay event.

All ideas of external conquest were abandoned, Christianity was forbidden, and Japan closed to foreigners, only the Dutch being allowed a strictly limited commerce.

Reiteration of baptism in the name of the Trinity is forbidden.

There .are also fast days called m'battal (Arab.), on which it is forbidden to kill any living thing or eat flesh.

True, after the fall of the city and the loss of Acre, they were forbidden by the Church; but the veto was impracticable.

Not only were concubinary priests - a term which was now made to include also those who had openly married - forbidden to serve at the altar and threatened with actual deposition in cases of contumacy, but the laity were warned against attending mass said by "any priest certainly known to keep a concubine or subintroducta."' But these heroic measures soon caused serious embarrassment.

At a later time he reproached himself for not having dethroned the Hohenzollerns outright; but it is now known that Alexander would have forbidden this step, and that he dissuaded Napoleon from withdrawing Silesia from the control of the House of Hohenzollern.

Family prayers were forbidden if any outside the immediate family were present, and religious services at the graveside were prohibited.

Foreigners were forbidden to hold land in Russia.

Sunday labour was forbidden, and the hours during which women and children could be employed were limited.

But it would seem that, just as under the Moslem rule, conversions from Christianity to Islam were forbidden.

The antrustions, belonging as they did to one body, had strictly defined duties towards one another; thus one antrustion was forbidden to bear witness against another under penalty of 15 solidi compensation.

He now laid an embargo upon Megara by which the Megarians were forbidden on pain of death to pursue trading operations with any part of the Athenian Empire.

By March 1483 he was reduced, we know not how; he laid down his office, and was forbidden to approach the court.

Civil marriage and divorce were introduced, and in 1904 all religions were placed on a position of equality in the eye of the law, and the foundation of new monasteries and convents was forbidden.

Special legislation is prohibited when general laws are applicable, and special and local legislation is forbidden in any of twenty-three enumerated cases, among which are divorce, changing of an individual's name or the name of a place, and the grant to a corporation of the right to build railways or to exercise any exclusive franchise or privilege.

The employment of children under 14 years of age in factories or mines, and working employees under 16 years of age for more than 60 hours a week, are forbidden by statute.

Mainz Commission; the grand-duke of Weimar was compelled to deprive him of his professorship; and he was forbidden to lecture on philosophy.

They are fanatical Mahommedans, regarding their places of worship as so sacred that the mere approach of a Jew or a Christian is forbidden.

To touch a leper was forbidden, and the offence involved ceremonial defilement.

At Yazur they were stopped by an official who extorted heavy blackmail on the ground that the sultan had given him charge of the " holy places " and had forbidden him to admit anyone to them without;payment (!).

While polygamy was the rule in biblical days among the ancient Jews, and was permitted and even enjoined in certain cases by the Mosaic law, the Christian Church, though it is nowhere forbidden, except for "bishops," in the New Testament, has always set its face against it.

The freedom with which he fraternized with his Protestant neighbours called forth the rebuke of his bishop (George Hay), and ultimately, for hunting and for occasionally attending the parish church of Cullen, where one of his friends was minister, he was deprived of his charge and forbidden the exercise of ecclesiastical functions within the diocese.

General Pollock, who was marching straight through the Punjab to relieve General Sale, was ordered to penetrate to Kabul, while General Nott was only too glad not to be forbidden to retire from Kandahar through Kabul.

In addition, after making careful inquiry through various commissions, he reformed the systems of education and police, laid down a comprehensive scheme of irrigation, improved the leave rules and the excessive report-writing of the civil service, encouraged the native princes by the formation of the Imperial Cadet Corps and introduced many other reforms. His term of office was also notable for the coronation durbar at Delhi in January 1903, the expedition to Lhasa in 1904, which first unveiled that forbidden city to European gaze, and the partition of Bengal in 1905.

He defeated the Turks at Salcha, captured the whole camp of the seraskier, Hassan Pasha, shut him up in Izmail, and was preparing to reduce the place when he was forbidden to do so by Potemkin (1789).

Irons were strictly forbidden except in cases of "urgent and absolute necessity," and it was ruled that every prisoner should have a bed to himself - if possible a separate cell, the last being the first formal statement of a principle upon which all future prison discipline was to be based.

It had exercised some supervision through its inspectors, had forbidden cells to be used until duly certified as fit, and had threatened to withhold exchequer contributions from prisons of which unfavourable reports were received.

They were forbidden to acquire landed estates in the conquered countries; all land was either made state property or was restored to the old owners subject to a perpetual tribute which provided pay on a splendid scale for the army.

The latter, however, was strictly forbidden by Abu Moslim.