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prohibitive, a.|prəʊˈhɪbɪtɪv|
[a. F. prohibitif, -ive (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.): see prohibit ppl. a. and -ive.]
1. Having the quality of prohibiting; that forbids or restrains from some course of action; prohibitory.
1602W. Fulbecke Pandectes 86 When it is apparant that such meetings are not made of euill intent, the prohibitiue Law ceaseth. 1765Act 5 Geo. III, c. 26 Preamble, [They] should convey, settle, and intail the lands..with all the proper, prohibitive, irritant, and resolutive clauses. 1845McCulloch Taxation ii. v. (1852) 213 Prohibitive and protective regulations..force capital and industry into less productive channels than those into which they would otherwise flow. 1887[see permissive 1]. 1889Voice (N.Y.) 30 May, The decrease [of saloons] being almost wholly due to the special prohibitive power of the judges of the license courts.
2. Of conditions, as taxes or prices: Such as serve to prevent the use or abuse of something.
1886American XII. 100 A tax whose effect will be prohibitive. 1888M. Arnold Civiliz. U.S. iv. 163 The cabrates are prohibitive—more than half of the people who in England would use cabs must in America use the horse-cars. 1898Tit-Bits 8 Jan. 279/1 The book was published at a well-nigh prohibitive price.
3. Gram. That expresses prohibition; negative in an imperative use.
1875P. Le P. Renouf Egypt. Gram. 56 The prohibitive em is frequently placed before [etc.]. Mod. The Greek µη and Lat. ne with the imperative have a prohibitive force.
Hence proˈhibitively adv., proˈhibitiveness.
1867Carlyle Remin. (1881) II. 296, I waved my hand prohibitively at the door. 1891T. Hardy Let. 15 July (1978) I. 240 The late Lord Lytton..abolished prohibitiveness as between himself & the mass of the thinking public..by consenting to paper covers at 2s/-. 1899Contemp. Rev. Dec. 829 A spirit of doctrinaire prohibitiveness. |