forbiddenadj.
/fəˈbɪdn/, U.S. /fərˈbɪd(ə)n/, /fɔrˈbɪd(ə)n/ In senses of forbid v.
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society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [adjective] > prohibited
forbiddenc1200
defendedc1405
prohibit?a1475
vetite?a1500
prohibited?1532
disallowed1539
forbid1599
inhibiteda1616
verboten1866
no-no1972
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 35 Þe forbodene appel.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 19861 Forboden beestis were þei in lede.
c1465 Eng. Chron. (Camden) 57 That the said maister Thomas sholde say massis in forboden..placez.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. ix. 128 Quhen scho to Troy forbodyn hymeneus socht.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost ii. i. 26 Before we enter his forbidden gates. View more context for this quotation
1620 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent iii. 293 To eate..forbidden meates, in Lent.
1782 W. Cowper Retirement in Poems 216 His hours of leisure..employs In drawing pictures of forbidden joys.
a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 109 I entered that forbidden room.
Compounds
spec. forbidden degrees, certain degrees of relationship within which persons are forbidden to marry; forbidden fruit, (a) that forbidden to Adam (Genesis ii. 17), also figurative; (b) hence, a name given to several varieties of Citrus, esp. C. decumana; forbidden line, a spectral line produced by a forbidden transition; †forbidden time (Scots Law), the close time for fish; forbidden transition, a transition between two states of a quantum-mechanical system (as a molecule, atom, or nucleus) that does not conform to some selection rules, esp. those for electric dipole radiation from an unperturbed system.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > [noun] > season > close season
fence-time1546
forbidden time1609
fence-season1880
society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] > that which is prohibited > fruit forbidden to Adam
appleOE
forbidden fruit1609
society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] > that which is prohibited > something tempting but forbidden
forbidden fruit1609
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > citrus fruit > [noun]
citronc1450
forbidden fruita1818
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > citrus fruit
Adam's apple?a1425
citronc1450
apple of Adam1615
forbidden fruita1818
kaffir lime1824
the world > matter > physics > quantum theory > quantum mechanics > quantum electrodynamics > [noun] > transition which breaks rules
forbidden transition1923
the world > matter > physics > quantum theory > quantum mechanics > quantum electrodynamics > [noun] > transition which breaks rules > spectral line produced by
forbidden line1923
1609 J. Skene tr. Quoniam Attach. lxxxvii. (heading) Of forbiddin Tyme in Fishing.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iii. §5 He required from him the observance of that positive command of not eating of the forbidden fruit.
1663 J. Heath Flagellum (ed. 2) 5 The stealing and tasting of the forbidden fruit of Soveraignty.
a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 212 Some sweet oranges, others bitter ones, others again forbidden fruit.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Pomelloes, a name under which forbidden fruit is sometimes sold in this country by fruiterers.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Forbidden Fruit Citrus Paradisi.—(of London) a variety of the shaddock C. decumana.
1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms Forbidden Degrees.
1923 H. L. Brose tr. A. J. W. Sommerfeld Atomic Struct. & Spectral Lines vi. 366 The forbidden lines..belong to transitions in which n i jumps by two or..by three units.
1923 H. L. Brose tr. A. J. W. Sommerfeld Atomic Struct. & Spectral Lines vi. 367 In the combinations (spi) in the H.S. or the II N.S. no forbidden transitions occur.
1939 J. W. T. Spinks tr. G. Herzberg Molecular Spectra I. v. 305 Another forbidden transition, also involving magnetic dipole radiation, has been observed for oxygen.
1957 Encycl. Brit. II. 591/1 The two strong green lines in the spectra of the gaseous nebulae prove to be forbidden lines of doubly ionized oxygen.
Derivatives
forˈbiddenly adv.
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society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [adverb] > in forbidden manner
forbiddenlya1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 417 He thinkes..that you haue toucht his Queene Forbiddenly . View more context for this quotation
forˈbiddenness n.
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society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] > state of being prohibited
forbiddennessa1691
a1691 R. Boyle Free Disc. Customary Swearing (1695) 37 Since the sinfulness of swearing does consist, not in the diversity of our Oaths, but in their forbiddenness.
1744 T. Birch Life R. Boyle 41 Nothing but the forbiddenness of self-dispatch hindered his acting it.
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