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单词 prohibit
释义 I. proˈhibit, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. prohibit-us, pa. pple. of prohib-ēre to hold back, prevent, forbid, f. prō in front + habēre to hold.]
Prohibited, forbidden. (Also const. as pa. pple.: see next.)
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 215 Whiche..hade not knowlege of hym selfe, whiche is comparable to brute bestes in drawenge to thynges prohibitte.1678Sir G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. i. xxxi. §2 (1699) 158 By the Civil Law likewise, the prohibit Arms were confiscat.1683Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 277 Discharging merchants..to sell or exchange any prohibite commodities with themselves or amongst others in the Kingdome of Scotland.1714Fr. Bk. of Rates 400 Arrest of the King's Council, for levying of 30 Sols per 100 upon all Cheese from Foreign Parts, except from England and Holland, which remains prohibit.
II. prohibit, v.|prəʊˈhɪbɪt|
Also 5 -hibet.
[f. L. prohibit-, ppl. stem of prohibēre: see prec. For pa. pple., prohibit was used down to the 18th c.; but prohibited also appeared as early as 1532.]
1. trans. To forbid (an action or thing) by or as by a command or statute; to interdict.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 237 A table of brasse prohibetenge synne [orig. peccatum prohibens], where the myȝhty preceptes of the lawe bene wryten.1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 148 The damnable lust of cardes and of dice, And other games prohibite by the lawe.1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 510/2 Such folk I suppose wer better prohibited betymes.1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 91 b, Not to prohibite this newe fanglednes.1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 176 They altogether prohibite the use of wine in fevers.1772Junius Lett. lxviii. (1820) 346 They considered..what the thing was which the legislature meant to prohibit.1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 14 In England an act of parliament was passed in 5th year of reign of Henry IV prohibiting the attempts at transmutation and making them felonious.1874Green Short Hist. iv. §2. 166 The Statute of Mortmain..prohibited the alienation of lands to the Church under pain of forfeiture.
2. To prevent, preclude, hinder, or debar (an action or thing) by physical means.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V 59 The Frenchemen..gathered together a greate numbre of men of warre redy to defend and prohibite the passage.1634R. H. Salernes Regim. 66 They comforte the Stomacke, and prohibite vapours and fumes.1667Milton P.L. ii. 437 Gates of burning Adamant Barr'd over us prohibit all egress.1834H. Martineau Demerara iii, Having seen them..drop asleep, or shut their eyes so as to prohibit conversation, as much as if they were.
3. To forbid, stop, or prevent (a person):
a. from doing something; also, to do a thing (arch.).
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. Pref. 1 [The reading of history] prohibyteth reprouable persons to do mischeuous dedes.a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII 55 b, For the rage of the water, and contraritie of the wyndes, her ship was prohibited diuerse tymes to approche the shore and take lande.1615in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 166 No cause why..his Majesty's subjects should be..prohibited from any place.1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters III. 261 The patients..are peremptorily prohibited to bathe on Sundays.1840Macaulay Ess., Clive (1887) 550 There is no Act..prohibiting the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from being in the pay of continental powers.
b. With various obsolete constructions. (Cf. forbid.)
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 279 That he scholde prohibite hym of thynges whiche scholde not be doen.1531Dial on Laws Eng. lii. 140 Whether it stande with conscyence to prohybyt a Jury of mete & drynk tyll they be agreed.1680H. Dodwell Two Lett. (1691) 78 St. Ambrose..prohibited none for coming to him at any time.
c. With direct and indirect object (dative). Obs. or arch.
1530Palsgr. 667/2 He hath prohybyt me his house.1619Drayton Past., Ecl. vi. xv, To recall that, labour not in vain, Which is by fate prohibited returning.1657J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 456 Those Authors, whose books are prohibited printing in England under great penalties.1671R. MacWard True Nonconf. 160 A Synod in England did prohibite the Scots any function in their Church.1741Middleton Cicero II. ix. 331 He prohibited Antony the entrance of his Province.
4. Formerly with following negative expressed or implied: To command not to do something; to cause a thing not to happen or take place. Obs.
1555Eden Decades 259 The princes of the lande are prohibite in peine of death to absteine from such stronge drinkes.1557North Gueuara's Diall Pr. (1582) 295 They did prohibit that no man shoulde..sell openly..wine of Candie or Spaine.1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 145 b, Helyas through the power of God, did prohibit that it should not rayne.a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. i. 41 It cannot effectually prohibit the Heart not to move, or the Blood not to circulate.1692Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 249 The gravity prohibiting that they cannot recede from the centers of their Motions.1707Earl of Bindon in Lond. Gaz. No. 4339/3 To Prohibit..all Coach-makers,..that they do not use Varnish'd Bullion-Nails.
Hence proˈhibiting vbl. n., prohibition.
1614W. Colwall in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 151 The prohibiting of white cloths to come into these countries.1677Act 29 Chas. II, c. 7 §3 Nothing in this Act contained shall extend to the prohibiting of dressing of Meate in Families or dressing or selling of Meat in Inns Cookeshops or Victualling Houses for such as otherwise cannot be provided.
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