prohibitionn.
/ˌprəʊ(h)ᵻˈbɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌproʊ(h)əˈbɪʃ(ə)n/ΚΠ
?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 155 (MED) It sufficeþ forto streine þe wounde to-gider and bynde it wiþ prohibicioun of blood & aquosite out off þe wounde.
c1475 tr. Henri de Mondeville Surgery (Wellcome) f. 156 A surgian owiþ to be moost ententif in prohibicioun of þe þingis aforeseid, and also in curacioun of hem.
1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. iii. f. 90v/1 For the prohibition of a spasme ye shal rubbe often the nuke or marye of the backebone.
2. The action or act of forbidding; an edict, decree, or order which forbids, prevents, or excludes; the forbidding or condemnation of something; an embargo or restriction against something.
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society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun]
defence?c1335
forbiddingc1380
defendingc1400
prohibition1429
embarring1563
prohibiting1572
embargement1599
inhibiting1607
forbiddance1608
touch-me-not1636
forbiddal1835
1429 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1834) III. 342 (MED) After þe publicacioun of þe saide prohibicioun..þere shal be maad and seeled newe obligaciouns be þe..lordes of þe conseil.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1879) VII. 287 Prestes despisynge this prohibicion [L. censuras].
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. cccliiv This..semeth to some men in to coaction, that is to sayne, constraynyng or els prohibycion that is defendynge.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 106 Ther must be a prohybytyon set out by commyn authoryte.
1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron I. Induction f. 1v [The City] was cleansed of many annoyances, by diligent Officers thereto deputed: besides prohibition of all sickly persons enterance,..with incessant prayers..for the asswaging of so dangerous a sicknesse.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 645 So glister'd the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve..to the Tree Of prohibition . View more context for this quotation
1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 318 The prohibition of Wine was a very wise maxim.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiv. iii. 126 He well knew..after the strict Prohibition from Sophia, he was not to be forced by any human Power. View more context for this quotation
1809 R. Collins in G. M. Theal Rec. Cape Colony (1900) VII. 20 The poor Gona pleaded with all the gestures of theatrical representation to be exempted from the prohibition against intruders into the colony.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 404 The prohibition of excessive wealth is a very considerable gain in the direction of temperance.
1949 I. Schapera in M. Fortes Social Struct. 104 In contrast to most other Bantu-speaking peoples.., the Tswana tribes of the Bechuanaland Protectorate have remarkably few marriage prohibitions.
1990 Pen Internat. 40 i. 24 Creativity is muzzled by the instructions & prohibitions of the state.
2004 Daily Tel. 24 Nov. 9/6 There will be new regulations applying to animal sanctuaries and pet fairs,..and a prohibition on goldfish and other animals being given as prizes.
3. Law.† b. Scots Law. Each of the three technical clauses in a deed of entail prohibiting the heir from selling, incurring debt upon, or altering the succession to an estate. Obsolete.
a. An order (formerly, and currently in U.S., a writ) issuing from a superior court, forbidding an inferior court, tribunal, etc., from proceeding in a suit deemed to be beyond its cognizance.In Britain formerly issuing from the Court of King's Bench, and sometimes from the Court of Chancery or of Common Pleas, now usually out of the High Court of Justice.
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society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > writ > writs transferring cause to another court
ponea1325
procedendo1405
prohibition?1435
siserary1482
certiorari1523
advocationc1540
tolt1607
recordari1648
procedendo ad judicium1657
society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > writ > other types of writ
utrumc1290
quo warrantoa1325
writ of right closea1325
writ of oyer and terminer1414
writ of right1414
quare impedit?a1424
prohibition?1435
praecipec1440
supplicavita1450
replevy1451
ouster-le-main1485
praecipe in capitec1523
value1527
inhibition1532
rehabilitation1533
melius inquirendum1549
ne exeat regnum1559
quo minus1592
letters (or writ) of supplementc1600
inhibition1603
fair pleading1607
ingressu1607
ne exeat regno1607
account1622
associationa1625
ship-writ1640
cessavit1641
ne exeat1644
devastavit1651
right close1651
writ of second deliverance1652
fair pleader1655
beaupleader1700
proclamation writ1713
writ of inquiry1809
writ of intendence and respondence1881
?1435 in C. L. Kingsford Chrons. London (1905) 36 (MED) Whanne parties..sewden offte tymes to haue prohibicions oute off the Chauncerie, fforto lete and delaye the processe, [etc.].
a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 261 (MED) He submytted hym..to the Iurisdiccion..of ony Iuge of the chirche or seculer..renounsyng..al excepcion agayn-saiyng or contradiccion, kyngis prohibicion, priuylege of courte..by the which the fore-put thyngis myght be lette or elles I-taried agayn.
c1523 J. Rastell Expos. Terminorum Legum Anglorum (at cited word) Prohibicyon is a writ and it lyeth wher a man is inpledid in the spirituall court of that thyng that touchyth not matrimony nor testement but that touchyth the kynges crown.
1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI c. 13 §14 If any Party..for any Matter..sued..before the Ecclesiastical Judge, do sue for any Prohibition in any of the King's Courts.
1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 79 Consultation is a writ whereby a cause being formerly removed by prohibition, out of the Ecclesiasticall Court or Court Christian, to the Kings Court, is returned thither againe.
1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) viii. 305 A Prohibition was served upon those Vicars.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 435 Every Statute Prohibitory is a Prohibition of Law.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. ii. ii. 310 The courts of law frequently issued ‘Prohibitions’ against proceeding in the Ecclesiastical Courts with suits not lawfully cognizable there.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 793/1 A writ of prohibition is a prerogative writ—that is to say, it does not issue as of course, but is granted only on proper grounds being shown.
1938 Law Notes 57 295 Sect.7 abolishes the prerogative writs of mandamus prohibition and certiorari and provides that, in the cases in which these writs could formerly have been issued, the High Ct. shall instead make orders of M. P & C respectively.
1971 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 23 Nov. 6/3 Matter of John M. Lawrence (Lang. Hogan)—Writs of mandamus and prohibition.
1985 R. C. A. White Admin. of Justice ii. vi. 96 Of judicial review..there are three orders available... Prohibition orders an inferior court to cease acting unlawfully.
2005 Arkansas Law Rev. 58 763 When the trial court did not grant Automated Conveyor's motion to dismiss, it filed a petition for writ of prohibition with the Arkansas Supreme Court.
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1754 Ld. Cathcart Petition to Lords of Council & Session 18 Nov. 15 Where an Heir of Tailzie brings any Burden upon the taillied Estate, contrary to the Prohibitions of the Tailzie..he is obliged to relieve the subsequent Heir from all such Burdens.
1798 Decisions Court of Session 1756–60 384 It was not in his power afterwards to split that superiority, contrary to the prohibitions of the entail.
1826 G. J. Bell Comm. Laws Scotl. (ed. 5) I. 29 When the prohibition to subfeu is effectually created as a real burden on the right of the vassal.
1848 Act 11 & 12 Victoria c. 36 §32 Disencumbering the entailed estate..and the heir of entail..of all the prohibitions, conditions, restrictions, limitations, and clauses irritant and resolutive, of the tailzie.
1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 802/2 Before the passing of the act 11 and 12 Vict. c. 36, 1848, it was doubted whether an entail could be effectual which did not contain the whole of the three prohibitions;—against alienations; against the contraction of debt, so as to affect the estate; and against the succession.
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a. The outlawing of the trading or importation of a specific commodity; a legal ban of this sort; (also) concrete a prohibited item or article (rare).
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society > trade and finance > [noun] > principles and practice of > system of economic doctrine
prohibitiona1641
protection1719
mercantile system1776
mercantile doctrine1816
mercantile theory1820
protectionism1846
productionism1929
a1641 T. Mun England's Treasure (1903) iii. 10 Where likewise by commanding their own manufactures to be used, they prevent the coming in of others, without prohibition, or offence to strangers in their mutual commerce.
1670 W. Temple Let. to Ld. Arlington in Wks. (1731) II. 214 Another Point..is the Prohibition of French Commodities.
1734 J. Vanderlint Money answers All Things 54 Whence it's obvious, all Prohibitions must in the Issue be injurious to Trade, because..they are always designed to restrain the Money from going out of the Nation.
1794 Deb. Congr. U.S. (1849) App. 1448 That any of the aforesaid articles,..which, during the continuance of this prohibition, shall be found on board of any vessel,..shall be forfeited.
1825 J. R. McCulloch Princ. Polit. Econ. i. 33 Heavy duties and absolute prohibitions were interposed to prevent the importation of manufactured articles from abroad.
1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 302 Manufacturers in want of customers cried out for trade prohibitions.
1901 Dict. National Biogr. at Campbell, Sir George The refusal to sanction Campbell's proposed prohibition of the export of rice from Bengal.
1905 Post Office Guide 1 Jan. 493 Eau de cologne is a prohibition into Basutoland.
1993 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 June a27/1 Study after study concludes that the prohibition of log exports reduces the value of our timber resources.
b. Chiefly U.S. The forbidding by law of the manufacture, sale, or transport of alcohol for consumption; esp. such restrictions as imposed in the U.S. under the Volstead Act (1919). Also (frequently with capital initial): the period between 1920 and 1933 when these restrictions were in force.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > prohibition
prohibition1843
dryness1910
1843 New Hampsh. Rep. 13 585 We have considered the statute in question, as it truly is, a law regulating the sale [of liquor]. It is not a statute of prohibition.
1851 Annual Rept. Exec. Committee Amer. Temp. Union May 27 The State of Vermont has struggled arduously to arrive at the summit level of entire prohibition.
1869 Daily News 6 Sept. The majority of the people of the State [of Massachusetts] are..opposed to prohibition, though they would favour a good license law.
1891 (title) The Cyclopædia of Temperance and Prohibition (U.S.).
1899 J. R. Rowntree & A. Sherwell Temperance Problems (1901) iii. 42/1 The agitation in favour of prohibition in Maine began early in the thirties... The efforts of [Generals Appleton and Dow]..resulted in 1846 in the passage of the first Prohibitory Act.
1927 New Republic 21 Sept. 109/1 The Republicans have been laboring night and day to keep prohibition from becoming an issue in the campaign.
1931 M. F. Furness Mem. Sixty Years xix. 246 We of course heard much talk of Prohibition, and also saw a good deal of its absence.
1970 Nature 19 Sept. 1186/2 The laws [in the U.S.A.] against marihuana have become so widely abused as to appear to many as a new Prohibition.
1980 L. St. Clair Obsessions iii. 77 I made him gin in his gold-plated bath-tub. The same recipe I used during Prohibition, back in the States.
2005 Alabama Heritage (Electronic ed.) Spring The judge offered a rambling and vague testimony, but..those supporting prohibition, including the Anti-Saloon League, maintained strong support for him.
5. Astrology. The prevention or nullification of the effect of one aspect by that of another. Now rare.
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1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. xix. 111 There's another manner of Prohibition; by some more properly called Refrenation.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Prohibition,..in Astronomy it is, when two Planets are applying to Conjunction, or Aspect, and before they come to joyn themselves, another comes to Conjunction, or Aspect of the Planet applied to.
1789 M. Sibly tr. P. Titi Astron. & Elem. Philos. 120 Prohibition, is when one planet is applying to the ☌ of another; and before this is accomplished, another planet conjoins the former, and so a prohibition is formed.
1819 J. Wilson Compl. Dict. Astrol. Prohibition, the same as frustration.
1828 ‘Raphael’ Man. of Astrol. 199 Prohibition, is so called, when two planets are applying by aspect to each other; but before the aspect can possibly be formed, a third planet interposes his aspect, and thus hinders or prohibits the matter in hand.
1947 N. DeVore Encycl. Astrol. 189 An Abscission of Light that will frustrate the promised effect of the slower-moving aspect, consituting a prohibition..against its operation.
Compounds
C1. General attributive (chiefly in senses 4 and 4b), as prohibition era, prohibition law, prohibition order, etc.
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1773 London Mag. Aug. 378/1 We have a prohibition law; but by practice it is evaded and rendered ineffectual.
1851 Househ. Words 25 Jan. 417/1 I do not advocate the prohibition-principle.
1877 Harper's Mag. Dec. 146/1 R. Pitman..Prohibition candidate for Governor.
1877 Harper's Mag. Dec. 146/2 He argues..the prohibition system a success.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 31 Dec. 2/2 He carefully studied the Prohibition Question while there... In one Prohibition town he was taken to various hotels by the Dominion M.P...who..was elected on the Prohibition card—for the purpose of having a whisky-and-soda.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 11 Dec. 8/1 The outcome of this foolish (almost wicked) retention of the Prohibition Order is that now an American Meat Trust is able to name the price that must be paid for meat by poor British consumers.
1949 Daily Oklahoman 13 Feb. d.2/2 A petition will be circulated calling for repeal of the state's liquor prohibition law.
1968 N.Y. City (Michelin Tire Corp.) 32 The area later became famous as the ‘speakeasy belt’ during the Prohibition era.
1984 New Yorker 20 Feb. 78/2 Today, with the wisdom of hindsight, we may equally lament the great opportunity that was missed when the United States rejected the Soviet ‘prohibition treaty’.
2004 Newport Life Mag. Summer 39 A favorite of the Prohibition era was the ‘nip stick’—a cane with a hidden flask for beverages.
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prohibition party n. U.S. a political party supporting the prohibition of the manufacture, sale, or transport of alcohol for consumption; spec. (the name of) such a party formed in September 1869.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > other parties
Liberty Party1705
republican1782
republican1799
prohibition party1855
Greenback party1875
Christian Right1947
religious right1973
1855 Delaware State Reporter 16 Oct. 1/2 But for the political action of the hard cider party and the prohibition party, [etc.].
1869 in D. L. Colvin Prohibition in U.S. (1926) iv. 73 We adopt the name of the National Prohibition Party, as expressive of our primary object.
1948 Time 12 Jan. 13/1 The Prohibition Party has nominated a candidate for President ever since its formation in 1869.
1964 Times 3 Nov. 8/5 Professor Earle Munn, nominee of the Prohibition Party, believes that it is wrongly named.
1975 Frederick (Maryland) Post 28 June c8/1 The Prohibition party wants to shed its preoccupation with liquor.
2004 Philadelphia (Pa.) Inquirer (Nexis) 12 Oct. b2 In 1972, as a college student, I allowed two old ladies, thrilled by a twenty-something's interest in the Prohibition Party, to shower me with buttons of their presidential ticket.
prohibition state n. U.S. (chiefly historical) a state in which the manufacture, sale, or transport of alcohol for consumption is prohibited by law.
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1881 Marion (Ohio) Daily Star 8 Jan. Maine, the leading prohibition State of the Union.
1892 Outing Dec. 209/1 They have no beer here: North and South Dakota are prohibition states.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 19 Aug. 5/4 Already more than half the entire population is living in Prohibition States.
1970 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 19 Aug. 20/2 Kansas was a prohibition state.
2004 T. Madge White Mischief 78 By the mid-1880s Pemberton's wine was selling well, but at this point it seemed as though Georgia would become a prohibition state.
Derivatives
prohiˈbitionward adv. rare towards prohibition (sense 4b).
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1885 G. W. Bain in Voice (N.Y.) 29 Nov. It is delightful to see the tendency of public sentiment prohibitionward in the South.
1910 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 14 Sept. 11/6 Rev. George E. Stockwell..the last Prohibition candidate for governor,..spoke in favor of straight line tickets rather than fusion unless the fusion movement was prohibitionward.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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